Tribute to Gram Parsons & Clarence White [Import]

The Flying Burrito Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sundown Records
• ASIN: B000001BLK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,574,834 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Six White Horses

2. Emmy

3. Bugler

4. The Promised Land

5. Freeborn Man

6. Games People Play

7. Detroit City

8. Medley

9. Miller's Cave

10. Christine's Tune

11. Wheels

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It Now, June 14, 2000

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This review is from: Tribute to Gram Parsons & Clarence White (Audio CD)

For those who do not know, Gram Parsons was a sensitive songwriter and soulful singer from the bands Flying Burrito Bros, Int'l String Band, and a later edition of the Byrds. Sadly, he died of a drug overdose in 1973. Clarence White, also a member of the Byrds and the Kentucky Colonels bluegrass band, was a quiet, gentle giant of a guitar player who revolutionized melodic flatpicking guitar--all the great country and bluegrass players of today owe at least something to Clarence's originality. Sadly, he was killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment in the trunk of his car on July 4 of the same year Parson's died.

If you are upset with the current direction of the gutless, cookie-cutter, pretty boy/sexpot girl state of what passes for country music today, get this album, then all the original albums by Flying Burrito Bros, Kentucky Colonels, esp albums named Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Grievous Angel, GP. Country music today lost its way when it took a series of right turns like a one-armed man in a rowboat. Now it has lost its soul, but Gram and Clarence show that this music once had a heart and a soul and a spirit that can never be put out, and everyone should know about it.