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Artist:	PARSONS, GRAM
Title:	Another Side Of This Life - The Lost Recordings
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SC 11092CD

"18 previously unheard demo recordings of Gram Parsons, country-rock pioneer and former member of the Byrds and founding member of the Flying Burrito Brothers. This release -- available on CD and 180-gram vinyl -- features Parsons, singing and playing acoustic guitar, recorded from March 1965 to April 1966 at the home of his Winter Haven, Fla. friend, Jim Carlton. Another Side of This Life also features rare photos and a detailed liner essay by noted writer Stanley Booth." From Jim Carlton's liner notes: "He was dropping names like Fred Neil, Dick Weissman and Bob Dylan...he was an urban folkie and damn good at it. Several of the tunes on this CD, obviously of their era, to my knowledge, are the only surviving recordings of his foray into the Village folk music scene...others provide a glimpse of the incipient stages of his landmark group The International Submarine Band."

Artist:	PARSONS, GRAM
Title:	G.P.
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MS 2123HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue of Gram Parsons' first solo album, originally released in 1973. Manufactured by Rhino. "...probably the best realized expression of his musical personality. Working with a crack band of L.A. and Nashville's finest (including James Burton on guitar, Ronnie Tutt on drums, Byron Berline on fiddle, and Glen D. Hardin on piano), he drew from them a sound that merged breezy confidence with deeply felt Southern soul, and he in turn pulled off some of his most subtle and finely detailed vocal performances; 'She' and 'A Song for You,' in particular, are masterful examples of passion finding balance with understatement. Parsons also discovered that rare artist with whom he can be said to have genuinely collaborated (rather than played beside), Emmylou Harris; Gram and Harris' spot-on harmonies and exchanged verses on 'We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning' and 'That's All It Took' are achingly beautiful and instantly established her as one country music's most gifted vocalists. On G.P., Parsons' ambitious vision encompassed hard-country weepers, wistful ballads, up-tempo dance tunes, and even horn-driven rhythm and blues." -- All Music Guide

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