G.P. Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons

G.P. Grievous Angel

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G.P. Grievous Angel

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Audio CD (March 22, 1990)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Reprise / Wea

Catalog Number: 26108

Reader Reviews
What do you say about this CD? When you drive across the country and every single city has its own radio station or five playing the kind of hybrid of traditional country and rock-n-roll invented by this man and essentially perfected on these two albums? My oh my, it takes a lot to leave a loudmouth like me speechless but here goes... Basically his goal was to combine the nostalgia and warm fuzzy feelings for home and family endemic to country music with the ballsiness and breadth of rock, thus extending the reach and impact of both genres (which up to that point had been separate and seemingly at odds, the hippies vs. the rednecks and so forth); as he says in the famous Flying Burrito Brothers bootleg of a radiocast from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in 1969, it all goes back to "nostalgia and slow country". Obviously he was possessed of a singular vision, a "Cosmic American Music" which became a seamless part of the vernacular after he died so tragically and so young. IMO he is one of the figures of modern music without whom things would be substantially different. As for these recordings, forget it, just buy them immediately, they are indispensible and you will never be the same after you become familiar with their contents. Personally I prefer the 2nd one, especially the immortal "$1000 Wedding" and "The Return of the Grievous Angel" two story songs without peer, with the latter being a setting of a poem handed over to Gram by a fan in a bar in Boston! Grab this CD (as well as the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and the FBB albums on which he appears) and discover someone who in 26 short years of life managed to change the world as much as almost any musician you could name. And if that isn't enough, remember that these are the albums that gave us Emmylou Harris, whom Gram, through Burrito Brothers Chris Hillman and Rick Roberts, essentially discovered!

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