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GRAM PARSONS with EMMYLOU HARRIS

plus GLEN D. HARDIN, EMORY GORDY, RONNIE TUTT, N.D. SMART, HERB PEDERSON,

BERNIE LEADON, JAMES BURTON, AL PERKINS, BYRON BERLINE, LINDA RONSTADT, etc.

Gram Parsons is the father of country-rock. With the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, the songwriter pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music, and as a solo artist he moved even further into the country realm, blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other. While he was alive, Parsons was a cult figure that never sold many records but influenced countless fellow musicians, from the Rolling Stones to the Byrds. In the years since his death, his stature has only grown, as numerous rock and country artists build on his small, but enormously influential, body of work...

"GRIEVOUS ANGEL"

Produced by Gram Parsons

1974    LP     REPRISE RECORDS    STEREO   MS 2171

PRINTED IN CANADA

SINGLE SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER (CANADIAN STYLE)

This version: with Warner Bros. "W" references/logo on labels.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: REPRISE - TAN LABEL w/STEAMBOAT LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear)  MS 2171

Catalog on labels: SS 2171 (31,678) / MS 2171 (31,679)

Matrix / Runout (A Side, Etched): 31678-1A   2-HK:  DM-    (Stamped): 10

Matrix / Runout (B Side, Etched): 31679-1A  2-HKA:  DM-    (Stamped): 09

On labels:

rim text reads "Manufactured and Distributed by WEA Music of Canada, Ltd. A Warner Communications Company?"

Produced by Gram Parsons for Tickner-Dickson Productions

? 1974 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

STEREO

On back cover: Recorded at Wally Heider 4 and Capitol Recording Studios

Manufactured and Distributed by - WEA Music of Canada, Ltd..........Scarborough, Ont.

tracklisting

Side A: RETURN OF THE GRIEVOUS ANGEL - HEARTS ON FIRE

I CAN'T DANCE - BRASS BUTTONS - $1000 WEDDING

Side B: MEDLEY: a) CASH ON THE BARRELHEAD  b) HICKORY WIND

LOVE HURTS - LAS VEGAS - IN MY HOUR OF DARKNESS

grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Gram Parsons fondness for drugs and high living are said to have been catching up with him while he was recording Grievous Angel, and sadly he wouldn't live long enough to see it reach record stores, dying from a drug overdose in the fall of 1973. This album is a less ambitious and unified set than his solo debut, but that's to say that G.P. was a great album while Grievous Angel was instead a very, very good one. Much of the same band that played on his solo debut were brought back for this set, and they perform with the same effortless grace and authority (especially guitarist James Burton and fiddler Byron Berline). If Parsons was slowing down a bit as a songwriter, he still had plenty of gems on hand from more productive days, such as "Brass Buttons" and "Hickory Wind (which wasn't really recorded live in Northern Quebec; that's just Gram and the band ripping it up live in the studio, with a handful of friends whooping it up to create honky-tonk atmosphere). He also proved to be a shrewd judge of other folks material as always; Tom T. Hall's "I Can't Dance" is a strong barroom rocker, and everyone seems to be having a great time on The Louvin Brothers's "Cash on the Barrelhead." As a vocal duo, Parsons and Emmylou Harris only improved on this set, turning in a version of "Love Hurts" so quietly impassioned and delicately beautiful that it's enough to make you forget Roy Orbison ever recorded it. And while he didn't plan on it, Parsons could hardly have picked a better closing gesture than "In My Hour of Darkness." Grievous Angel may not have been the finest work of his career, but one would be hard pressed to name an artist who made an album this strong only a few weeks before their death -- or at any time of their life, for that matter...(AllMusic)