I haven't seen the A&E thing. I'll try and figure out what the TV movie was called. It was a major network thing like channel 5 or 7 or something. It is hilarious. Perhaps even better then the made for TV Ike and Tina movie.
I haven't seen the A&E thing.
for a while there were bunch of these docs that screened here in local theatres that i wanted to see but missed the window. and i didn't see "be here now" and "you're gonna miss me" in addition to the gram doc. i haven't seen them yet but i hope they don't suck like Fallen Angel
but that's another problem i had with the doc, like they could have spent more times on the interviews so i could get a clearer picture? poor gram. he's got this great story about his bestfriends stealing his deadbody and burning it and all he has to show for it is this unmemorable documentary that tells that story in a dry way and the IFC like movie with johnny knoxville and christina applegate.
Wow.THE HOLLENBECK
What amazes me about Gram Parsons was that, like Jim Croce or Bruce Lee (who both died the same year), he was cut down in his prime. His career had no time to "jump the shark" because he would have still been in his heyday.
many's the time ive ordered a plain ole steak burrito and there was too much for me to finish at that moment - i been there
if i could find the z.z. top Tres Hombres gatefold (or had the time to) id post it here for comparison
The Gosdin Brothers by themselves were hell on wheels, as well...you should try to find their 1968 album on Capitol, Sounds Of Goodbye, which is country-rock from the country angle. It's been reissued on CD.Flying Burrito Brothers are good...but I loves me some Gene Clark and the Godsin Brothers!
The Gosdin Brothers by themselves were hell on wheels, as well...you should try to find their 1968 album on Capitol, Sounds Of Goodbye, which is country-rock from the country angle. It's been reissued on CD.Flying Burrito Brothers are good...but I loves me some Gene Clark and the Godsin Brothers!
That's because Cody and his guys weren't sleepy folkies like the Eagles and the rest. They borrowed from Buck Owens' Bakersfield sound, Bob Wills' hillbilly boogies, Sun rockabilly, and maybe a pinch of R&B. Just like today's alt-country acts, it didn't take much for most country-rockers back in the early '70s to turn all soft and folky. Cody was a little more focused than that. They were from Detroit, they didn't fuck around.
This is absoulutly the greatest hippie country rock lp ever made.
I just heard Doug Sahm & Band for the first time fairly recently, on a CD reissue...it's not as intense as the garagey Tex-Mex stuff with the Sir Douglas Quintet, but it amazes me how well it's held up. Most diehard Sahm fans think this LP is a lowpoint of his career - well, it's no "She's About A Mover," but if you GOTTA listen to laid-back country rock it may as well be on a Doug Sahm album. I like it.
The Gosdin Brothers by themselves were hell on wheels, as well...you should try to find their 1968 album on Capitol, Sounds Of Goodbye, which is country-rock from the country angle. It's been reissued on CD.Flying Burrito Brothers are good...but I loves me some Gene Clark and the Godsin Brothers!
The above is essentially the same as w/Gosdin Bros, but some tracks were redone or remastered. Reason was these guys felt time told them it should be tweeked. IMO, the original is best..deeper richer tones vs the brighter more crisper tones on the later "postcard" cover LP. Haven't heard the sundaze reissue w/bonus tracks yet.Anybody looking for the Gene with the Gosdin Bros LP and doesn't want to drop the loot, you should just pick up this...
It doesn't have all the same songs but it has all the good ones.
That photo had such an effect on me, I couldn't
