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Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: Anthology
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Audio CD, Best of, Import, May 1 2001
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Blue Eyes - The International Submarine Band |
2 | Luxury Liner - The International Submarine Band |
3 | Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome? - The International Submarine Band |
4 | I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known - The International Submarine Band |
5 | Miller's Cave - The International Submarine Band |
6 | Knee Deep In The Blues - The International Submarine Band |
7 | Hickory Wind - The Byrds |
8 | You're Still On My Mind - The Byrds |
9 | The Christian Life - The Byrds |
10 | You Don't Miss Your Water - The Byrds |
11 | One Hundred Years From Now - The Byrds |
12 | Christine's Tune (Devil In Disguise) - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
13 | Sin City - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
14 | Do Right Woman - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
15 | Dark End Of The Street - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
16 | Wheels - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
17 | Juanita - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
18 | Hot Burrito #1 - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
19 | Hot Burrito #2 - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
20 | High Fashion Queen - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
21 | Older Guys - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
22 | Cody, Cody - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
23 | Wild Horses - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
24 | Sing Me Back Home - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
Disc: 2
1 | To Love Somebody - The Flying Burrito Brothers |
2 | Still Feeling Blue - Gram Parsons |
3 | We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning - Gram Parsons |
4 | A Song For You - Gram Parsons |
5 | Streets Of Baltimore - Gram Parsons |
6 | She - Gram Parsons |
7 | The New Soft Shoe - Gram Parsons |
8 | Kiss The Children - Gram Parsons |
9 | How Much I've Lied - Gram Parsons |
10 | Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man - Gram Parsons, The Fallen Angels |
11 | That's All It Took - Gram Parsons, The Fallen Angels |
12 | California Cotton Fields - Gram Parsons, The Fallen Angels |
13 | Return Of The Grievous Angel (Remix) - Gram Parsons |
14 | Hearts Of Fire - Gram Parsons |
15 | Brass Buttons - Gram Parsons |
16 | $1000 Wedding - Gram Parsons |
17 | Love Hurts - Gram Parsons |
18 | Ooh Las Vegas - Gram Parsons |
19 | In My Hour Of Darkness - Gram Parsons |
20 | Brand New Heartache - Gram Parsons |
21 | Sleepless Nights - Gram Parsons |
22 | The Angels Rejoiced Last Night - Gram Parsons |
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The Gram Parsons Anthology / Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels
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Les martyrs d'hier sont les héros d'aujourd'hui et la mort (par overdose) de Gram Parsons ne fit qu'amplifier sa légende. Déjà, à la fin des années 60, les Rolling Stones, et Keith Richards en particulier, lui vouaient une grande admiration. C'est d'ailleurs à lui que l'on doit l'inspiration de leurs chansons les plus country comme "Wild Flowers" par exemple. Malgré une carrière mouvementée et des collaborations décisives à des groupes, comme les Flying Burrito Brothers, c'est avec les Byrds que Gram Parsons laissera la marque la plus durable. Sa participation au groupe fit prendre à celui-ci le tournant country que l'on retrouve dans des chansons comme "Hickory Wind" ou "You're Still On My Mind". Des morceaux inscrits au programme de cette idéale anthologie qui retrace la carrière de l'Ange Déchu, qui semblait dans ses chansons raconter son jeu avec la mort qui l'attendait. Depuis ses débuts avec l'International Submarine Band, de loin la partie la plus méconnue et la plus sous-estimée de sa vie artistique, jusqu'aux extraits de ses deux seuls albums solo, cette collection présente à la fois un plan panoramique et une mise en perspective. Du premier groupe, on trouve ainsi le titre "Luxury Liner", repris plus tard par son amie Emmylou Harris, et qui en baptisera un de ses meilleurs albums. La période solo est la mieux illustrée avec quelques-uns des titres les plus connus comme "Oohh Las Vegas" ou "Love Hurts", tandis que la patte sensible et campagnarde de Parsons apparaît aussi dans les extraits des Flying Burritos comme le populaire "Sin City". Plus qu'une introduction à la carrière de Gram Parsons, cette Anthology est une somme. --José Ruiz
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- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 13.97 x 12.7 x 2.54 cm; 203.55 Grams
- Manufacturer : Rhino
- Manufacturer reference : 89
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Label : Rhino
- ASIN : B00005BC89
- Number of discs : 2
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For the uninitiated, Grams'Cosmic American Music is offered to the listener in chronological order. Starting with his seminal International Submarine Band's best cuts segueing into the vocal remixed songs with the Byrds heretofore unavailable except on their boxed set, and sliding into his Flying Burritos Brothers stint which culminated into his tragically curtailed days with the Fallen Angels,Gram's best recordings are here.
Some of the gems include "Blue Eyes"(ISB); "Hickory Wind", "The Christian Life", "100 Years From Now(Byrds); "Do Right Woman", "Hot Burrito #1"--his most soulful song, "Dark End of the Street"(FBB);"Streets of Baltimore", "Love Hurts", "In My Hour of Darkness"--written in part for Clarence White, and "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night" (with a young Emmy Lou Harris backed by Elvis' band.
I invite any reader of this review to pick up this CD and share in the wonderful aural legacy of a voice that disappeared much too soon but is generating new listeners each year.
Enjoy!
With a sweet sadness naturally inflected in his voice and his penchant for combining rock, country, and some subtle touches of rhythm and blues, he helped to pioneer a sound that began with his stint in the Byrds, and influenced the likes of the Eagles, Poco, and the early Doobie Brothers.
There is a great body of work here that's representative of his all too short career, and I'm almost eternally greatful that I haven't yet heard a cover of "Brass Buttons," my favorite song on this anthology. It's quite possibly one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard regardless of genre, and his soft, winsome retelling of the lady in question is enough to make you want to comfort him. He has also ruined me for any other version of "Wild Horses," even though the song was penned by Jagger and Richards, and "She" is another amazing standout with it's strong gospel influences.
Yes, this collection is pretty much country, but it's quality music, and it comes from the heart rather than the dark hovering cloud of some corporate bigwig in today's music industry. One really wonders when hearing a collection like this what country would sound like today had Parsons survived his overdose. As it is, we sure could use something close to the next best thing now, because he could never be duplicated.
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1) The International Submarine Band's "Safe At Home" reissue on Sundazed contains tracks 1-6 on CD 1, as well as 4 more tracks, in excellent sound and packaging.
2) The Byrds' "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" CD on Legacy features lots of Gram vocals and involvement, including tracks 7 & 8 on CD 1, but you miss the Gram vocal take on "The Christian Life" that's on this 2xCD. The versions of "You Don't Miss Your Water" and "One Hundred Years From Now" are different, too. Although these (tracks 9-11 on CD 1 here) were on the Byrds' boxed set, they were just about the only worthwhile things on it that weren't on any of the Byrds' single CD reissues as bonus tracks - so this double CD gets you those 3 tracks quite easily.
3) The Flying Burrito Brothers "Hot Burritos!" 2xCD on A&M contains tracks 12-24 of CD 1 here, plus the first track of CD 2 . . . AND 29 more tracks, some of them excellent (though this 2xCD does a good job of capturing the best.)
4) The Reprise single CD reissue of Gram's two solo albums "GP" and "Grievous Angel" contains tracks 2-9 on CD 2, as well as tracks 13-22 on CD 2. It also has five tracks not included here. And the song "Return Of The Grievous Angel" is in a different mix here.
5) Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels "Live 1973" CD on Rhino features tracks 10-12 on CD 2, plus nine tracks not here, in excellent sound.
6) This CD also features three outtakes from Gram's solo albums (tracks 20-22 on CD 2). These were previously available only on the import-only "Sleepless Nights," a compilation of these three tunes plus some late-period Flying Burrito Brothers country covers - the best of which are also on "Hot Burritos!" So this Rhino set is an easy way to get these three tracks without any dross.
That's it, with the exception of the recently unearthed "Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings Of Gram Parsons 1965-1966," a surprisingly fine Sundazed release of previously undiscovered demos. Gram's talent is in full flower (he even performs a version of his own "Brass Buttons" roughly 8 years before its appearance on "Grievous Angel.") Most of the 18 tracks are covers of great songs by Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and other soulful folky types. It's much better than you'd think.
Enjoy!
The musical debt owed Gram Parsons is uniquely inverse to his own musical output over the brief decade or so he was active, from roughly 1963-73. Perhaps most famously, Parsons was a Byrd (for all of five months) during the recording of the seminal country-rock album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, but his output as a member of the International Submarine Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, with Emmylou Harris in the Fallen Angels and as a solo artist over the course of two critically acclaimed albums is so rich and deeply rooted in Americana that it in some very exceptional ways defines the genre to this day. Without Parsons, there’s simply no Eagles and certainly no alt.country movement, which this exquisitely curated Rhino anthology makes perfectly clear.
Sketching out Parsons’ career chronologically, Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels opens with six tracks recorded with the ISB before delving headlong into his brief foray into Byrdland with the five tracks to which he originally contributed lead vocals. By its initial release, however, Sweetheart of the Rodeo severely downplayed Parsons’ heavy handed influence with all but two of the tracks he sang on (“Hickory Wind” and “You’re Still On My Mind”) having been overdubbed with Roger McGuin’s own lead vocals – the original Parsons’ versions lying dormant in the Columbia vaults until 2000 but fully restored here. Parsons left the Byrds a couple months prior to the official release of Sweetheart to form a new version of the Flying Burrito Brothers, which now also former-Byrd Chris Hillman joined along with Chris Etheridge and Sneeky Pete Kleinow. The first Burritos record, The Gilded Palace of Sin, was a supercharged set or Parsons’-penned classics such as “Sin City,” and “Hot Burrito #1,” both of which serve to anchor Disc One’s 24 tracks here
Disc 2 continues with a final Burrito tune, “To Love Somebody” from the toned-down Burrito Deluxe before delving into nearly all the tracks from both Parsons’ solo efforts, GP and the posthumously released Grievous Angel bookending a trio of classics by the Fallen Angels: “Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man,” “That’s All It Took” and “California Cotton Fields.” In all, 46 tracks cover Parsons’ career from beginning to end in better form than the other available set, the Complete Reprise Sessions, especially in that plenty of attention here is paid to what can easily be called the first crossover country album ever recorded, International Submarine Band’s Safe At Home. Simply put, Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angles is the most essential Gram Parsons document available. Some of the most important things come in small packages.