3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS

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great thread.

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Great article about Gram and his nudie suits

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/ ... c-american
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rereleased vinyl , you can stream a sample of each song.

http://www.sundazed.com/shop/product_in ... ts_id=2674

listening to 'sweethearts of the rodeo' now on youtube. the version before gram vocals were cut, such good music
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Clams wrote:Great article about Gram and his nudie suits

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/ ... c-american

good interview with Manuel...

http://punkglobe.com/manuelinterview0814.php


Keith's nudie sold for...

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Just discovered this record on Spotify and it's fantastic. A live radio broadcast from 1973 which is Gram's GP/Grievous Angel era with the Fallen Angels. The songs sound great (Emmylou!) and so does the band, equal parts country and blues. What's really interesting is all the banter - since Gram's recording and live career was so short, it's pretty rare that you get to hear the guy talk. I highly recommend this record!!
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very cool. clams is a fucking genius.

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Another wonderful live set.

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If banter's what you're into, I seem to remember there being a bit on here (or maybe I'm thinking of an interview). Due to a pricing snafu, I was able to grab this excellent comp at Best Buy for something like 6 bucks when it first came out.

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Interesting take on the song Wild Horses...
http://nodepression.com/article/ive-sai ... ild-horses

Now excuse me while I go listen to some GP. 8-)
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Clams wrote:Image

https://open.spotify.com/album/6aceZrYnw14DGR8jPBq3On

Just discovered this record on Spotify and it's fantastic. A live radio broadcast from 1973 which is Gram's GP/Grievous Angel era with the Fallen Angels. The songs sound great (Emmylou!) and so does the band, equal parts country and blues. What's really interesting is all the banter - since Gram's recording and live career was so short, it's pretty rare that you get to hear the guy talk. I highly recommend this record!!


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per a request from Clams.....

Two weeks my wife and I were at Joshua Tree for a few days. On top of doing the hell out of an epic national park, we totally geeked out on all the GP stuff: went to Cap Rock multiple times, stayed at the Joshua Tree Inn (almost but not quite in Room 8), all the requisite stuff a huge Gram fan would do at JP.

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Great song-by-song breakdown of the Grievous Angel record on the occasion of its 45th birthday...

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/201 ... l-turns-45
Parsons never achieved anything remotely approaching the commercial success of his dear friend (and sometimes enabler) Keith Richards, though it seems likely that he may have soon enough. Within a couple of years of his passing, The Eagles would achieve seismic fame with a spit-polished and decidedly less weighty version of Parsons’ visionary music, aided by guitarist Bernie Leadon who played in the Flying Burrito Brothers and guested on Grievous Angel. Within music circles, Parsons’ legacy and impact has always been massive. During his lifetime, the Stones borrowed heavily from Gram’s idiosyncratic melding of styles – it is impossible to imagine them arriving at the unique crossroads of blues, soul and country that characterize Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street without his example. Soon after Parsons’ death, Dylan would evince a similarly heavy debt on the Emmylou Harris-aided exotica of Desire.

As the decades have passed the influence has only grown stronger. It is variously impossible to imagine everything from the work of Dwight Yoakam to Uncle Tupelo to the Drive-By Truckers without Gram leading the way, to name only a very few distinguished acts. Like the Velvet Underground, Parsons was a little too offbeat to connect to mainstream audiences in real time, but the reverberations of his extraordinary talent continue to shake the very firmament. We celebrate him and we grieve.
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Clams wrote:Great song-by-song breakdown of the Grievous Angel record on the occasion of its 45th birthday...

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/201 ... l-turns-45
Parsons never achieved anything remotely approaching the commercial success of his dear friend (and sometimes enabler) Keith Richards, though it seems likely that he may have soon enough. Within a couple of years of his passing, The Eagles would achieve seismic fame with a spit-polished and decidedly less weighty version of Parsons’ visionary music, aided by guitarist Bernie Leadon who played in the Flying Burrito Brothers and guested on Grievous Angel. Within music circles, Parsons’ legacy and impact has always been massive. During his lifetime, the Stones borrowed heavily from Gram’s idiosyncratic melding of styles – it is impossible to imagine them arriving at the unique crossroads of blues, soul and country that characterize Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street without his example. Soon after Parsons’ death, Dylan would evince a similarly heavy debt on the Emmylou Harris-aided exotica of Desire.

As the decades have passed the influence has only grown stronger. It is variously impossible to imagine everything from the work of Dwight Yoakam to Uncle Tupelo to the Drive-By Truckers without Gram leading the way, to name only a very few distinguished acts. Like the Velvet Underground, Parsons was a little too offbeat to connect to mainstream audiences in real time, but the reverberations of his extraordinary talent continue to shake the very firmament. We celebrate him and we grieve.
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I didn't know that "I Can't Dance" was a Tom T. Hall tune.

But I've definitely thought at times that it sounded like something he'd write.

It's one of my favorite moments on that album. "$1000 Wedding" is the best song, and deserves all of the accolades the piece gives it. But "I Can't Dance" never fails to make me smile.

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Iowan wrote:I didn't know that "I Can't Dance" was a Tom T. Hall tune.

But I've definitely thought at times that it sounded like something he'd write.

It's one of my favorite moments on that album. "$1000 Wedding" is the best song, and deserves all of the accolades the piece gives it. But "I Can't Dance" never fails to make me smile.
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