Flying Burrito Brothers
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Albums from the MC5, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers et al
Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 7 May 1969
"I guess you could say our thing is a condemnation of everything that is false and deceitful in our society." — John Sinclair, of the ...
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 27 May 1969
Gods, bishops, priests and worshippers ...
Burritos and Byrds: A talk with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman
Interview by uncredited writer, Helix, 4 September 1969
THE FLYING Burrito Brothers, in their own bittersweet honkytonk way, have become the subject of much foolish controversy. Hailed by numerous critics, fans, and even ...
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Circus, March 1970
WHAT IS the world coming to when the Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Grateful Dead get cut to pieces by a ...
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 20 June 1970
THAT DELANEY AND BONNIE have been instrumental in reshaping a considerable part of the ethos of modem pop music is indisputable. Eric Clapton, the charismatic ...
Gram Parsons, The Burrito Ego Man
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 25 July 1970
LOS ANGELES, Tuesday: Gram Parsons, founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, was a Byrd, a southerner and a Harvard College Drop-out. With the formation of ...
Chris Hillman: The Byrd who found his wings and began to fly
Retrospective and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 6 February 1971
Chris Hillman looks back on the Byrds and talks about his 'Brothers' ...
The Flying Burrito Brothers : Last of the Red Hot Burritos
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 22 June 1972
The fourth – and presumably last – album of the Flying Burrito Bros. is, as it were, a departure. Not only is this album live, ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: After The Burritos
Retrospective and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Let It Rock, October 1972
BY THE TIME rhythm guitarist Gram Parsons left the Byrds shortly after the release of their monumental Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album, country-rock had become ...
Ex-Byrd Gram Parsons Solos: He's No Longer in a Hurry
Interview by Judith (Judy) Sims, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973
LOS ANGELES — Back in 1969 Gram Parsons, rhythm guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, and Chris Ethridge, bassist, decided to form a country rock band ...
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 12 May 1973
This is the man Presley's musicians turn to when they're sick of those Las Vegas riffs. ...
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Live In Amsterdam
Review by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, June 1973
THE FIRST double album in rock that I remember was Blonde On Blonde, and to this day it is one of the few which really ...
Gram Parsons: Take Your Partners and Away You Go (One Step back Two Steps Forward)
Essay by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, July 1973
Rock, Country & Gram Parsons ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975
SNEEKY PETE KLEINOW looks like you'd expect a veteran pedal-steel player to look. Green shirt with an elaborate marijuana-leaf motif emblazoned there-on, neatly pressed, white ...
Interview by Mick Houghton, ZigZag, March 1975
ZZ: HOW DID you come to be part of the whole related family of Los Angeles musicians? You actually come from Michigan? ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: Southern Californians Bring Me Down
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 2 October 1976
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: Sneeky Pete And The Return Of The Flying Journeymen
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 16 October 1976
"ASK THEM abouta da name. They gotta no right to use it!"Don't worry, friends, my esteemed Italian colleague doesn't really speak like that, and his ...
More Hot Burritos: the Flying Burrito Brothers
Report and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 7 March 1980
LOS ANGELES — If tradition in music is meaningful in any way, it is because performers can emerge and fade, groups can split up and ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace Of Sin/Burrito Deluxe
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1997
IN CONTRAST to the pure country of Gram Parsons' seminal early Seventies solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, his work with the Burritos at the ...
Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 12 September 1998
Twenty-five years ago, Gram Parsons died in a remote desert motel, the victim of a prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol that shocked even Keith ...
Sleeve notes by Bud Scoppa, Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels (Rhino), September 2000
The International Submarine Band: Safe at Home ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: Sincity — The Very Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers (Universal)****
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, September 2002
ALTHOUGH THEY fit neatly into the silver-stitched seams on the patchwork quilt that became the country-rock heritage centre, The Flying Burrito Brothers were neither as ...
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Flying Again/Airborne
Sleeve notes by Terry Staunton, Acacia Records, June 2006
THERE ARE FEW figures in the history of popular music who have been eulogised or mythologised as much as Gram Parsons. It's to be expected ...
Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 1934-2007
Obituary by Andy Gill, The Word, March 2007
AS PEDAL STEEL guitarist with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Sneaky Pete Kleinow probably did more than any other musician to establish that instrument in rock ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, September 2007
GP & Co, Free At Last After Being Locked Up In The Dead Vault For 38 Years. ...
How the Ghost of Gram Parsons haunts Alt-Country
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, January 2018
GRAM PARSONS didn't care much for the term "country-rock". And he wasn't thrilled by some of the more candy-coated bands who were able to capitalize ...
see also Byrds, The
see also Country Gazette
see also Eagles, The
see also Chris Hillman
see also Gram Parsons
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