3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
great thread.
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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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
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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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
very cool. clams is a fucking genius.
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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
Another wonderful live set.
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.
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.
Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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.
http://nodepression.com/article/ive-sai ... ild-horses
Now excuse me while I go listen to some GP.
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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
Clams wrote:
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!!
This disc was my introduction to Gram.
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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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.
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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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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
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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Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
Cool article, rightfully places $1000 Wedding among the best songs of the 20th century, but I noticed two inaccuracies: "Sin City", maybe inexplicably, wasn't about Las Vegas but actually L.A., and the second verse of "In My Hour of Darkness" is about Clarence White, not Elvis.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.
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
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.
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.
Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
I believe that's Al Perkins playing that fuzz tone pedal steel on I Can't dance. He is a beast of a player.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.
Re: 3DD Artist of the Week - 7/18/11 - GRAM PARSONS
If you don't run you rust