Track Listing

1. Brand New Heartache - Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons
2. Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
3. Sing Me Back Home
4. Your Angel Steps out of Heaven
5. Crazy Arms
6. Sleepless Nights - Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons
7. Close Up the Honky Tonks
8. Together Again
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Green, Green Grass of Home
11. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
12. Angels Rejoiced Last Night - Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81297 in Music
• Released on: 2006-06-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
1976 posthumous release featuring The Flying Burrito Brothers & Emmylou Harris.

Customer Reviews

out-takes worth taking....
This album was actually my introduction to Gram Parsons. As an introduction, it is not much chop as it neglects his songwriting and original approach to non-country material. This side of Gram is exemplified on other releases (particularly the FBB Gilded Palace of Sin) that were the foundations of country-rock and alt.country as we now know them. Nonetheless, it's a great album for Gram-completists and a good country-rock (with the emphasis on country) effort. The solo (with Emmylou Harris) songs are probably the highlights although I like the Burritos take on Green Green Grass of Home. The version of Honky Tonk Women is disappointing.

Collectable Gram
This comprises stand-out tracks of country standards Gram Parsons made with the Burritos shortly before he left the band, and three fantastic previously unreleased duets with Emmylou Harris which were inexplicably left off his wonderful second solo album, Grievous Angel, including the definitive version of Sleepless Nights. You need to have these

A Pleasant Collection!
This post-humous collection of Gram Parsons recordings was originally released in 1976 - 3 years after his death. 9 tracks are Flying Burrito Brothers recordings from early 1970 and 3 tracks were recorded during the "Grievous Angel" sessions. The 3 later tracks are duets with Emmylou Harris.

There are no Parsons originals included. The Burritos were planning to record a whole album of "pure and honest" country music. Most tracks are pleasant, but nothing extraordinary.

Parsons had a good voice for country music, but this collection does not give the answer to how he could become a legend in country-rock. There are some fine vocal harmonies with Chris Hilmann and with Emmylou Harris things rarely go completely wrong.

Of the Burrito songs "Sing Me Back Home", "Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven" and "Dim Lights" are really good, and "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night" with Harris is the highlight of the album.