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John9
Old Love
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 Posted - 28/02/2012 : 00:19:29
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I have this last weekend, bought the 2CD Legacy edition of this classic 1968 album. I can remember feeling very lukewarm about the LP when I first heard it in 1971...I couldn't understand where all that innovation from the first five albums had gone. But I now see it as one of the most important records ever....along with Dylan's Basement Tapes The second CD consists of International Submarine Band recordings as well rehearsal versions of songs that were destined to appear on Sweetheart. Listening to Gram Parsons guiding the rest of the band as they uncover lost treasures of country music is profoundly moving. And then of course there is that heartbreakingly beautiful 1933 cover.
Take care of your health and get plenty of rest |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 00:35:30
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Such wonderful album, J9.
I actually have the original UK vinyl with that nice plastic coated jacket...whatever it is was that was done to those great 60's album covers in the UK, I love it!
What you have sounds even better.
In the BBC4 documentary, Hotel California: LA. The Byrds To The Eagles", one musician said Gram sat her & her friends down at his apartment and made them listen all night to his hero outlaw country records.... until they got IT!!
Gram was a true pioneer of country rock..what a sad loss & what he could have produced had he lived!
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere...ooooowee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sinMvuvIdz8
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 00:47:12
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Thanks LK - yes I too had that original UK pressing....until like an idiot, I got rid of it because my mates at that time didnt think the music was hip enough.......oh what wisdom the advancing years bring! Still, now I have two CD versions....the original 1997 expanded edition is part of my much treasured Byrds 12 Dimensions box set'. Not only doeas it contain all the Columbia albums, it also has Pete Frame's family tree along with two postcards each of the 1965 and 1970 bands.
The advantage of having the vinyl of course is that you can actually read what is written beneath each cowboy as the fashions change.
I also love Gram's two solo albums...especially that wonderful harmony work with Emmylou. |
Edited by - John9 on 28/02/2012 00:49:20 |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 14:30:06
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| Great stuff,eh? That cover is just beautiful. It's in my office just so I can look at it every day!!...;-)...When you hear Blue Canadian Rockies or Hickory Wind, you can immediately feel how 'country' can get down to your ever-lovin' soul. And with Gram singing, it can be a killer. And we have to thank Jay Dee too as he contributed to that high-lonesome sound! Dig that steel on the record. The best. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 14:31:38
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| And go on johnny put on Steets of Baltimore or Kiss the Children or In My Hour of Darkness! |
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The Byrds' Sweetheart of The Rodeo
