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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2006
It is even harder to find the FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS second album, BURRITO DELUXE, than it is to find their now acknowledged masterpiece THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN. (There were other Burrito Brothers albums, but not with Gram Parsons). To see all my thoughts regarding the awesome GILDED PALACE OF SIN, see my review for that album, but if you're looking for a buy, this compilation is it. BOTH of the BURRITO BROTHERS albums are here, and as perfect as PALACE is, BURRITO DELUXE can only be underrated: song after wonderful song, one by Dylan, a pair by Gram (Ingram) Parsons and Chris Hillman, and most of the rest by Parsons and bassist Bernie Leadon, are perhaps even more remarkable for their perfect form, even if one after another are simply "thrown out." Of course, the last track by Jagger/Richards predates the ROLLING STONES' own release of "Wild Horses" on their STICKY FINGERS album by nearly a year. Gram Parsons is rumored to actually have "written" the song, but I expect his brilliant kanoodling with pals Mick Jagger and Keith Richards inspired them. The STONES had leant Parsons the song because certainly they felt he had the most authentic voice to sing it with (plans to have Parsons sing it on STICKY FINGERS met the kabash by the STONES' record label). Though I would never deny my love for, or the perfection of, THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN, I cannot praise BURRITO DELUXE any higher than to say it may be my own personal favorite BURRITO BROTHERS album.
