According to Chris Hillman of The Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons wrote this song about his breakup with his girlfriend Nancy, with whom he had a daughter, Polly Parsons, in 1968. Even though they never married, Nancy took Gram’s last name, becoming Nancy Parsons (she was formerly Nancy Ross).

On this plaintive track, Parsons can’t stand the thought of his girl with another man. “I don’t want no one but you to love me,” he sings.

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Hot Burrito No. 1 Review by Mark Deming
Gram Parsons was known to call George Jones the King of Broken Hearts, but on this tune (which he co-wrote with Chris Ethridge), he certainly gave the Old Possum a serious run for his money. Three and a half minutes of glorious misery, “Hot Burrito #1” was the song of a broken man opening up his soul for the woman who has left him behind; it’s hard to imagine anyone else blending shame, regret, anger, and troubling memories so artfully as Parsons does as he cries, “I’m the one who showed you how/To do the things you’re doing now.” Country has always been a music about high emotions, and Parsons, one of the most intelligent artists and insightful enthusiasts the genre ever had, rarely mined the music’s melodramatic sorrow deeper – and with greater effect – than he did with this song. Elvis Costello, who has never failed to cite Parsons as one of his strongest influences, recorded a fine version of “Hot Burrito #1” on his album of country & western covers, Almost Blue, and if the original has a decided edge, there’s no denying that the student learned from his master very well indeed.