Parsons played a central role in bringing country music to the masses--and introducing lesser-known and/ or forgotten pioneers of the genre to the attention of many of us who already listened to country. His work with the Flying Burrito Brothers changed my life. I remember the first time I heard 'Sin City'--it changed my musical journey forever.
Apparently Gram heard about Emmylou Harris' talent and went to hear her in Baltimore, Maryland. She was doing a solo folk act in local clubs there. After hearing her he convinced her to move to CA and start rehearsing. Parsons had money to cover times of unemployment because he had a trust fund from his mother and step father. That gave birth to the Fallen Angel Band which gathered great musicians and they set out on the road. That group disbanded fairly quickly and that is when Parsons, Harris and many of the best studio players, including James Burton, began recording and produced 2 albums, "GP" and "Return of the Grievous Angel" Note; This is information gathered from other videos, blogs and websites. I am presenting it as I heard it from these other people.
He wrote that when he was 15/16 I believe…. Also you gotta listen to the version of this on his solo album Grievous Angel. It’s after “Cash on the Barrelhead” it’s some what of a secret track with him and Emmylou.
Man this guy is more than just discovering Emmy lou dang dude this young man is the reason for the eagles hell maybe even Fleetwood Mac! The stones changed after coming into the graces of Gram.. life and after tragic death is just just well im done.
As you stated. "Wow." Gram; talented writer, magnetic performer, and visionary. Last year he was just a shadowy figure to me. Now I own every album he made and listen every day. Emmylou called him extraordinary; others a crazed genius. He had everything except long life. Thank you.
Gram was best known for his band The Flying Burrito Brothers (Sin City, Hot Burrito #2), but if you want to check out the Emmilou connection then check out the Fallen Angels (Love Hurts, We'll Sweep Out the Ashes) absolutely gorgeous duets!
Another bit of info. Gram and The Byrds sang this beautiful song at The Opry for Grams Grandmother , who was there in the audience ,and the crowd actually boo'd them. Imagine .I know it was a different time .I sort of equate it to when Beethoven's music was considered obscene . Genius is often misunderstood or not appreciated .Long live The Grievous Angel
Gram's remembrance and longing for the happy time in his life growing up in the south before his father died of suicide and his mother descended into alcoholism and her own death. His music invites exploration, revealing depth, beauty, and respect for what came before. Try his covers too; Dark End of the Street, Do Right Woman, Wild Horses, To Love Somebody, all remarkable. Gram was a great talent who was doomed to have a short life by his tattered past. As Chris Hillman wrote about Gram, "You lived the songs you sang".
check out his version of this song with Brandon DeWilde, the actor, who also died too young, and whom Gram supposedly said harmonized with him better than no one, except Emmylou Harris.
Gram is one of my dear favorites. This review made me dig up my Keith Richards autobiography off the shelf. I don’t remember if I discovered Gram through that book or just around the same time, but Keith was deeply close friends with Gram and was absolutely devastated when he passed. He credits Gram with really teaching him about the intricacies of country music, the difference between Bakersfield style and Nashville style etc.. He taught Keith how to play and write songs on a piano and I love the line in the book from right after they first met, “Within a day or two I’d known him my whole life..”
Gram was a genius whose life was marked by tragedy over and over again. He came from a VERY WEALTHY family. Yet, his father committed suicide when Gram was twelve. His mother died of alcoholism when he was fourteen. Based on a Rolling Stone story I read in the seventies, He cam into the first stage of his inheritance at age fourteen. The capital paid approximately $400,000 per year. This was some serious money for a fourteen year old in 1961! He "attended" Harvard for a semester but flunked out. He wasn't interested. He was a force of nature! The song just covered was by the Byrds. He was the newest member of the band and, somehow, convinced them to change their successful sound AND move to Nashville from L.A. because he was there! His death was, seemingly accidental but predictable give the lifestyle decisions he was making, along with the history of self-destructive death on the part of both parents. Survivor Guilt!
Thank you for your touching enthusiasm! I don't know if you already had a video about Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, they sung a haunting version of Hickory Wind. Their singing together and guitar playing is so beautiful, balm for the melancholic soul. For those who didn't hear them in the last decades, they sure are a treasure to listen to !
This is, I'm ashamed to say, the first time I've ever heard Gram Parsons. I've heard of him, I know he's iconic, but I don't remember hearing him. What a voice!
thanks for.the shout,Don. so glad you liked it i enjoyed your reaction,and agree wholeheartedly,and your praise of the song and of the talent that was lost,great job...youre the top of the line on you tube..................1976 song of the year, country...try cal smiths Country Bumpkin peace out
Need to read his interesting life story. Some buddies stole his body from the airport and carried it to Joshua Tree and set it on fire per his request!!
You reacted to Gram's 'Return of the Grievous Angel' 6 months ago that I requested. I don't think it stood out as strongly to you and you do so many videos its understandable you forgot, but I just looked and you still have the video. Glad this one struck a note with you! One of the greats.
@Logan Schrapf It's funny, but right after I recorded the reaction and about two weeks before I posted the edited version, I said to myself that I may have done a Gram reaction already. Maybe it was my description of him having gone to Harvard that stuck in my brain, but whatever it was I realized afterwards that I'd done a reaction. "Grievous Angel" was a heckuva song, but this one struck me as down home, hard core country.
@@RockN2Country For sure Don! Hickory Wind is an amazing tune. You never know which tune will resonate the most with someone. I think 'grievous angel' is his best tune, but I know there's half a dozen other songs people would love to argue for. Great review and "keep rockn2country"!
If you are into true Traditional Country Music, you should watch a PBS special 16 hr. Documentary Called: "Country Music". It is on the history of country music. My husband and I just finished watching, it was amazing. Starting with the The Carter Family and Jimmy Rogers all the way thru to Garth Brooks.
If you think this is good.....check out the version with Emmylou Harris on the Grievous Angel album! You owe it to yourself to hear this amazing track......also the title cut......The Grievous Angel album is his masterpiece. ...
Don, you should do a deeper dive in the crazy life and death of Gram Parsons! That was Emmy Lou singing harmony on this version. Gram came in to the Byrds after David Crosby left the band and turned the band to country. Many credit Gram for starting the "Country Rock" sound with the "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" album and he went on starting the Flying Burrito Brothers Band. His version of Wild Horses from his time with Keith Richards before being kicked out for being a bad influence on Keith and Hot Burrito #1 are 2 great songs to play and Hot Burrito #1 is a great time capsule video, thanks!
That wasn't Emmylou singing on the Byrds version. He hadn't even met her yet. Emmylou sings harmony with him on the version recorded with a fake audience as a medley of Cash on the Barrelhead/Hickory Wind.
Love the song but think it would have sounded more natural if it had a more of a bluegrass feel to it. Keith Whitley's cover goes in this direction but I'm thinking a cover by Dr. Ralph Stanley would have a masterpiece. I also would have liked to hear the original version by Sylvia Sammons, a blind folksinger from South Carolina. According to various articles, she sued Gram after hearing him singing her song and was paid a cash settlement if she agreed to turn over her 1963 recording of it.
Sylvia Sammons did make some claim to have written it, though i've never ever read she sued him or got any cash. The second verse was written on a train by Bob Buchanan as he and Gram travelled west to LA . Both he and Chris Hillman dispute Sammons claim and given Chris isn't slow in coming forward if he feels Gram is getting undeserved praise , i think perhaps maybe and its only a maybe !! she wrote a song with the same title and that is the only connection. Also I would of thought if there was indeed ever a '63 recording of the song it would of come to light by now.
@@MrPhilfridge "According to researcher David W. Johnson, Sammons lived in Highlands, North Carolina. Some remember her singing Hickory Wind as early as 1963 when Parsons was in the Carolinas, and, of course, North Carolina is associated with the Hickory tree whereas Parsons' home state, Florida, is not. She didn't hear the Byrds' recording, but heard Joan Baez's 1969 cover version. According to several of those around Sammons, she turned over a copy of the song she'd mailed to herself in a still-sealed envelope (an age-old way of copyrighting a song) and received a one-time payout. And so the story ends with a question mark. Sammons still insists that she wrote it. Parsons might have thought he was adapting a traditional song, but never gave any indication to Hillman or McGuinn that it was anything other than his and Buchanan's work. Buchanan got out of music and worked at General Motors until retirement, but still insists that he wrote the second verse, which he probably did."
@@davidemswiler4351 Thanks for your comment, i was aware Bob Buchanan had worked at General Motors and had quit music. Gram was not above i'm sure lifting an idea , and that's why i think if there is anything in this, maybe he used the title. For Gram to have remembered the lyrics from about 5 years previously suggests there would have to be a recorded version he had access to. I would have thought surely that would have surfaced by now and is the lyric of verse 1 something a blind person would of written? I'm certainly not convinced by this ladies claim and there must be documentation of the one off payment referred to . As you say there remains a question mark , a pity it wasn't a million seller that would of i'm sure sorted out whether there is any basis to M/s Sammons claim .
You would enjoy BJ Thomas' Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song. Also - Alvin and the Chipmunks did a cover that is hilarious if you need a laugh.
I'm not familiar with the turm Hickory Wind here is SC. Makes me think he is in SC pining for someone somewhere else. I know a city in NC called Hickory.
I believe you have reacted to the Stones song Wild Horses, without Gram that song wouldn't exist. It is a Jagger/Richards composition but his influence is all over it and they allowed him to release his own version of it a year before theirs was out.
@Outlaw Country Music Yes sir, got that one when Colter played here in Jersey last year. I did a review of the concert, with some pix and maybe even some raw footage of the show. Check the search function on the channel and type in "Colter," and all the reactions I've done to him will come up. The dude is unreal.
I saw you did “Desperate People” by John D. Hale. Another song from that same album is called “Harold Wilson”, should definitely do a video on that one
@delton davis It's on the list now. Please be patient with me since the list is long, but I'll get to it own the line. Thanks for the rec, and welcome aboard the channel!
@Ryan Roberts I've done two songs by them, one was "Yellow-Back Fly" and the song I forget the title, but it was with Edie Brickell. Check the search bar on my home page and it will bring them up for you. I'll get to more bluegrass as time moves along, right now my list is about three months long so it will take a while to get to that song, but I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the rec!
@Michael Vanpeski Good timing for your post, as I gave out my first 10 a couple days ago during a recording session. The video will be up in a week or two, but I was speechless. Maybe that's how I should rate songs, based on speechlessness. Stay tuned. :-)
Yes Gram Parsons deserves alot of credit for advancing what you would call "country rock," but there were so many other crucial groups that had a hand in it that go somewhat unnoticed these days. Commander Cody, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, and even thr grateful dead on a couple albums. Groups like the byrds (before parsons) and buffalo Springfield laid the groundwork, and the marshall tucker band on the east coast had a big hand in it as well.
All of those guys you mention at the beginning are wet socks ......very lame like Morgan Wallen, Eric Church, Justin whatever .......the not talent groups.... not even in the league with Travis Tritt, Mark Colle, Marty Stuart, Waylon, Kevin Welsh, Davis Daniel, Gary Stewart, Lee Roy Parnell ....the real stuff ....like Merle, George, Willie and Waylon !!! Gram is a giant artist !!! The Byrds were amazing !!!
He did discover Emmylou Harris. He was also booed off the Grand Ol’ Opry stage. Not because he sounded bad but because of his long hair. He joined the birds in 1969. They recorded one album with him. Sweetheart Of The rodeo. The album was a commercial failure & the band broke up. Gram did some solo work & discovered Emmylou. After that members of the birds formed a new group including him called The Flying Burito Brothers. After he passed his body was stollen from the funeral home & was never found. It is believed his road manager stole it as they had an agreement that whoever died first the other would take the body to Joshua Tree National Park & burn the body there. They made a movie about this called Grand Theft Parsons.
Phil Kaufman, his manager and friend, and his assistant Michael Martin stole the casket while being highly intoxicated to fulfill Gram's wish to be cremated and his ashes being scattered in Joshua Tree, one of his favorite places. Due to their intoxication and lack of knowledge (they tried to use gasoline which doesn't burn hot enough), they managed to only char his body but not completely burn it. Gram's charred remains were later returned to the funeral home. Shortly thereafter, Kaufman and Martin were found out and fined $300 plus the funeral costs. The whole story contains even mire drunkenness and also a car accident, and can be found on the interwebs.
Sweetheart was initially the BYRDS poorest selling album at the time of its release. however its now their biggest . The Byrds did not break up until 1973 and following Sweetheart , recorded six ! more albums - the last being by a briefly reformed first line up. They had a hit single with Chestnut Mare and the line up of Roger McGuinn, Clarence White , Skip Batten and Gene Parsons turned the band into one of the great live acts in their final years. I would suggest you perhaps read Timeless Flight Vols 1 and 2 by John Rogan if you want to really know about the band
Technically it was Chris Hillman and Rick Roberts who "discovered" Emmylou, singing folk music in a local DC club in 1971. They then recommended her to Gram, whom they knew was seeking a female singer to sing with him on his solo record. He was playing a date with them in Baltimore in '72, they gave him her number - he almost didn't make the call - he went to see her play the next night, the rest is history.
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Parsons played a central role in bringing country music to the masses--and introducing lesser-known and/ or forgotten pioneers of the genre to the attention of many of us who already listened to country. His work with the Flying Burrito Brothers changed my life. I remember the first time I heard 'Sin City'--it changed my musical journey forever.
Cosmic-American Music.
Apparently Gram heard about Emmylou Harris' talent and went to hear her in Baltimore, Maryland. She was doing a solo folk act in local clubs there. After hearing her he convinced her to move to CA and start rehearsing. Parsons had money to cover times of unemployment because he had a trust fund from his mother and step father. That gave birth to the Fallen Angel Band which gathered great musicians and they set out on the road. That group disbanded fairly quickly and that is when Parsons, Harris and many of the best studio players, including James Burton, began recording and produced 2 albums, "GP" and "Return of the Grievous Angel" Note; This is information gathered from other videos, blogs and websites. I am presenting it as I heard it from these other people.
He wrote that when he was 15/16 I believe…. Also you gotta listen to the version of this on his solo album Grievous Angel. It’s after “Cash on the Barrelhead” it’s some what of a secret track with him and Emmylou.
Man this guy is more than just discovering Emmy lou dang dude this young man is the reason for the eagles hell maybe even Fleetwood Mac! The stones changed after coming into the graces of Gram.. life and after tragic death is just just well im done.
I just love him, thats all, he got me into country music, like that was his plan and i m in❤️
As you stated. "Wow." Gram; talented writer, magnetic performer, and visionary. Last year he was just a shadowy figure to me. Now I own every album he made and listen every day. Emmylou called him extraordinary; others a crazed genius. He had everything except long life. Thank you.
@Margaret Ross You're welcome, and welcome to the channel!
Good one here had to watch love Graham love you
It s gram, short for ingram, but anyway
Gram was best known for his band The Flying Burrito Brothers (Sin City, Hot Burrito #2), but if you want to check out the Emmilou connection then check out the Fallen Angels (Love Hurts, We'll Sweep Out the Ashes) absolutely gorgeous duets!
Another bit of info. Gram and The Byrds sang this beautiful song at The Opry for Grams Grandmother , who was there in the audience ,and the crowd actually boo'd them. Imagine .I know it was a different time .I sort of equate it to when Beethoven's music was considered obscene . Genius is often misunderstood or not appreciated .Long live The Grievous Angel
Gram's remembrance and longing for the happy time in his life growing up in the south before his father died of suicide and his mother descended into alcoholism and her own death. His music invites exploration, revealing depth, beauty, and respect for what came before. Try his covers too; Dark End of the Street, Do Right Woman, Wild Horses, To Love Somebody, all remarkable. Gram was a great talent who was doomed to have a short life by his tattered past. As Chris Hillman wrote about Gram, "You lived the songs you sang".
The Byrds Sweathearts of the Rodeo.
check out his version of this song with Brandon DeWilde, the actor, who also died too young, and whom Gram supposedly said harmonized with him better than no one, except Emmylou Harris.
Gram called his music Cosmic American Music. In his short time on the planet, he was one of the most the most influence in
Cosmic American Music. Yes sir! Legend
Gram is one of my dear favorites. This review made me dig up my Keith Richards autobiography off the shelf. I don’t remember if I discovered Gram through that book or just around the same time, but Keith was deeply close friends with Gram and was absolutely devastated when he passed. He credits Gram with really teaching him about the intricacies of country music, the difference between Bakersfield style and Nashville style etc.. He taught Keith how to play and write songs on a piano and I love the line in the book from right after they first met, “Within a day or two I’d known him my whole life..”
Wasn't Keith and Gram roommates or something at one time?
Billy Mcpherson Keith’s audiobook is on RUclips.
I think so but not 100% sure
@@Caperhere I will give that a listen. I bought and read the book when it came out being a Stones junky.
Gram was a genius whose life was marked by tragedy over and over again. He came from a VERY WEALTHY family. Yet, his father committed suicide when Gram was twelve. His mother died of alcoholism when he was fourteen. Based on a Rolling Stone story I read in the seventies, He cam into the first stage of his inheritance at age fourteen. The capital paid approximately $400,000 per year. This was some serious money for a fourteen year old in 1961! He "attended" Harvard for a semester but flunked out. He wasn't interested. He was a force of nature! The song just covered was by the Byrds. He was the newest member of the band and, somehow, convinced them to change their successful sound AND move to Nashville from L.A. because he was there! His death was, seemingly accidental but predictable give the lifestyle decisions he was making, along with the history of self-destructive death on the part of both parents. Survivor Guilt!
Such a tragic family history, Gram's sister and his niece were killed in a boating accident years after his death.
Thank you for your touching enthusiasm!
I don't know if you already had a video about Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, they sung a haunting version of Hickory Wind. Their singing together and guitar playing is so beautiful, balm for the melancholic soul. For those who didn't hear them in the last decades, they sure are a treasure to listen to !
Hickory, SC.
hickory trees as well.
This is, I'm ashamed to say, the first time I've ever heard Gram Parsons. I've heard of him, I know he's iconic, but I don't remember hearing him. What a voice!
Check out grievous Angel
thanks for.the shout,Don. so glad you liked it i enjoyed your reaction,and agree wholeheartedly,and your praise of the song and of the talent that was lost,great job...youre the top of the line on you tube..................1976 song of the year, country...try cal smiths Country Bumpkin peace out
You should hear the rest of the album phew
I've heard Emmylou speak of Gram, the best of friends, in love and on the way of becoming a couple at time of his death.
1st time I ever heard this song was sung by Mo Pitney. He has a studio version on RUclips. I like the song and thanks, Don, for doing this song.
Need to read his interesting life story. Some buddies stole his body from the airport and carried it to Joshua Tree and set it on fire per his request!!
Look up Parson’s last interview, you’ll enjoy it, it’s also heartbreaking knowing his fate.
You reacted to Gram's 'Return of the Grievous Angel' 6 months ago that I requested. I don't think it stood out as strongly to you and you do so many videos its understandable you forgot, but I just looked and you still have the video. Glad this one struck a note with you! One of the greats.
@Logan Schrapf It's funny, but right after I recorded the reaction and about two weeks before I posted the edited version, I said to myself that I may have done a Gram reaction already. Maybe it was my description of him having gone to Harvard that stuck in my brain, but whatever it was I realized afterwards that I'd done a reaction. "Grievous Angel" was a heckuva song, but this one struck me as down home, hard core country.
@@RockN2Country For sure Don! Hickory Wind is an amazing tune. You never know which tune will resonate the most with someone. I think 'grievous angel' is his best tune, but I know there's half a dozen other songs people would love to argue for. Great review and "keep rockn2country"!
Favorite GP "A Song For You"
Gram, Emily, Linda: In My Hour of Darkness!
Emmylou
THE SELDOM SCENE also did a good bluegrass cover
If you are into true Traditional Country Music, you should watch a PBS special 16 hr. Documentary Called: "Country Music". It is on the history of country music. My husband and I just finished watching, it was amazing. Starting with the The Carter Family and Jimmy Rogers all the way thru to Garth Brooks.
If you think this is good.....check out the version with Emmylou Harris on the Grievous Angel album! You owe it to yourself to hear this amazing track......also the title cut......The Grievous Angel album is his masterpiece. ...
I like your Colter Wall shirt man
Subbed because of gram
@Jeremy Charlie Welcome aboard the channel!
Hickory wind is about Hickory,NC..its a song for his mom
Don, you should do a deeper dive in the crazy life and death of Gram Parsons! That was Emmy Lou singing harmony on this version. Gram came in to the Byrds after David Crosby left the band and turned the band to country. Many credit Gram for starting the "Country Rock" sound with the "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" album and he went on starting the Flying Burrito Brothers Band. His version of Wild Horses from his time with Keith Richards before being kicked out for being a bad influence on Keith and Hot Burrito #1 are 2 great songs to play and Hot Burrito #1 is a great time capsule video, thanks!
That wasn't Emmylou singing on the Byrds version. He hadn't even met her yet. Emmylou sings harmony with him on the version recorded with a fake audience as a medley of Cash on the Barrelhead/Hickory Wind.
Love the song but think it would have sounded more natural if it had a more of a bluegrass feel to it. Keith Whitley's cover goes in this direction but I'm thinking a cover by Dr. Ralph Stanley would have a masterpiece. I also would have liked to hear the original version by Sylvia Sammons, a blind folksinger from South Carolina. According to various articles, she sued Gram after hearing him singing her song and was paid a cash settlement if she agreed to turn over her 1963 recording of it.
Sylvia Sammons did make some claim to have written it, though i've never ever read she sued him or got any cash. The second verse was written on a train by Bob Buchanan as he and Gram travelled west to LA . Both he and Chris Hillman dispute Sammons claim and given Chris isn't slow in coming forward if he feels Gram is getting undeserved praise , i think perhaps maybe and its only a maybe !! she wrote a song with the same title and that is the only connection. Also I would of thought if there was indeed ever a '63 recording of the song it would of come to light by now.
@@MrPhilfridge "According to researcher David W. Johnson, Sammons lived in Highlands, North Carolina. Some remember her singing Hickory Wind as early as 1963 when Parsons was in the Carolinas, and, of course, North Carolina is associated with the Hickory tree whereas Parsons' home state, Florida, is not. She didn't hear the Byrds' recording, but heard Joan Baez's 1969 cover version. According to several of those around Sammons, she turned over a copy of the song she'd mailed to herself in a still-sealed envelope (an age-old way of copyrighting a song) and received a one-time payout.
And so the story ends with a question mark. Sammons still insists that she wrote it. Parsons might have thought he was adapting a traditional song, but never gave any indication to Hillman or McGuinn that it was anything other than his and Buchanan's work. Buchanan got out of music and worked at General Motors until retirement, but still insists that he wrote the second verse, which he probably did."
@@davidemswiler4351 Thanks for your comment, i was aware Bob Buchanan had worked at General Motors and had quit music. Gram was not above i'm sure lifting an idea , and that's why i think if there is anything in this, maybe he used the title. For Gram to have remembered the lyrics from about 5 years previously suggests there would have to be a recorded version he had access to. I would have thought surely that would have surfaced by now and is the lyric of verse 1 something a blind person would of written? I'm certainly not convinced by this ladies claim and there must be documentation of the one off payment referred to . As you say there remains a question mark , a pity it wasn't a million seller that would of i'm sure sorted out whether there is any basis to M/s Sammons claim .
Nice Colter shirt... How about some more Guy Clark? Maybe Stuff that Works.
@Jack Cerro Good to see you again!!
You would enjoy BJ Thomas' Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song. Also - Alvin and the Chipmunks did a cover that is hilarious if you need a laugh.
I'm not familiar with the turm Hickory Wind here is SC. Makes me think he is in SC pining for someone somewhere else. I know a city in NC called Hickory.
You HAVE to check out Guy Clark. Start with Desperadoes Waiting for a Train which is awesome and it only gets better from there.
@James Durham I got you covered! Enjoy, and welcome to the channel! ruclips.net/video/Hg2S1q3bjDw/видео.html
It probably reminded you of the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Look up their songs "Sin City", "Christine's Tune", and Gram's duet with Emmylou Harris of "Love Hurts".
I believe you have reacted to the Stones song Wild Horses, without Gram that song wouldn't exist. It is a Jagger/Richards composition but his influence is all over it and they allowed him to release his own version of it a year before theirs was out.
That song with the flying burrito brothers was way better than rollings stones version imo
Listen to this song by JD Crowe band with Keith Whitley as lead singer it's amazing
Great song, truly. By the way, where did you get that Colter Wall shirt? Did you see him live or just buy it online? Love those style of shirts😂
@Outlaw Country Music Yes sir, got that one when Colter played here in Jersey last year. I did a review of the concert, with some pix and maybe even some raw footage of the show. Check the search function on the channel and type in "Colter," and all the reactions I've done to him will come up. The dude is unreal.
I saw you did “Desperate People” by John D. Hale. Another song from that same album is called “Harold Wilson”, should definitely do a video on that one
Please react to Roy Clark’s ( yesterday when I was young) it’s lyrically a masterpiece and just a beautiful piece of art
@delton davis It's on the list now. Please be patient with me since the list is long, but I'll get to it own the line. Thanks for the rec, and welcome aboard the channel!
@@RockN2Country hey don.could you.do.a song.by faron.young.please.thank.you
You should really listen to Townes Van Zandt paternity blues
The song writing is spectacular and it’s really funny
Graham wanted to do county music.
Don.... BlackBerry Smoke aint much left of me, check it out!!
You did a gram song last year!?
Hey Don can you do George Jones good hearted woman
Lloyd Greene on steel guitar.
This is not the Byrds. Solo with Emmylou
I like the live version better. Clicks and grunts from the audience and Emmy Lou Harris wailing off the charts.
Can you review, Daddy Played the Banjo, by Steep Canyon Rangers?
@Ryan Roberts I've done two songs by them, one was "Yellow-Back Fly" and the song I forget the title, but it was with Edie Brickell. Check the search bar on my home page and it will bring them up for you. I'll get to more bluegrass as time moves along, right now my list is about three months long so it will take a while to get to that song, but I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the rec!
Thank you!
If you want to rate a song of a perfect 10. Check out Dream by Waylon Jennings.
@Michael Vanpeski Good timing for your post, as I gave out my first 10 a couple days ago during a recording session. The video will be up in a week or two, but I was speechless. Maybe that's how I should rate songs, based on speechlessness. Stay tuned. :-)
Yes Gram Parsons deserves alot of credit for advancing what you would call "country rock," but there were so many other crucial groups that had a hand in it that go somewhat unnoticed these days. Commander Cody, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, and even thr grateful dead on a couple albums. Groups like the byrds (before parsons) and buffalo Springfield laid the groundwork, and the marshall tucker band on the east coast had a big hand in it as well.
React to the fishing hole by Andy Griffith
Hey try some Bellamy brothers songs
for a good bluegrass cover listen to THE TUTTLES WITH AJ LEE
All of those guys you mention at the beginning are wet socks ......very lame like Morgan Wallen, Eric Church, Justin whatever .......the not talent groups.... not even in the league with Travis Tritt, Mark Colle, Marty Stuart, Waylon, Kevin Welsh, Davis Daniel, Gary Stewart, Lee Roy Parnell ....the real stuff ....like Merle, George, Willie and Waylon !!! Gram is a giant artist !!! The Byrds were amazing !!!
Check out Keith Whitley’s version wayy better ruclips.net/video/GPQ-j0wPvVM/видео.html
I agree
How are you today 10 below here HAKAD
Emmylou
I think Towns Vansant went to Harvard to .I garante if You don't know who He is You have Heard songs he wrote
He did discover Emmylou Harris. He was also booed off the Grand Ol’ Opry stage. Not because he sounded bad but because of his long hair. He joined the birds in 1969. They recorded one album with him. Sweetheart Of The rodeo. The album was a commercial failure & the band broke up. Gram did some solo work & discovered Emmylou. After that members of the birds formed a new group including him called The Flying Burito Brothers. After he passed his body was stollen from the funeral home & was never found. It is believed his road manager stole it as they had an agreement that whoever died first the other would take the body to Joshua Tree National Park & burn the body there. They made a movie about this called Grand Theft Parsons.
Phil Kaufman, his manager and friend, and his assistant Michael Martin stole the casket while being highly intoxicated to fulfill Gram's wish to be cremated and his ashes being scattered in Joshua Tree, one of his favorite places. Due to their intoxication and lack of knowledge (they tried to use gasoline which doesn't burn hot enough), they managed to only char his body but not completely burn it. Gram's charred remains were later returned to the funeral home. Shortly thereafter, Kaufman and Martin were found out and fined $300 plus the funeral costs. The whole story contains even mire drunkenness and also a car accident, and can be found on the interwebs.
Sweetheart was initially the BYRDS poorest selling album at the time of its release. however its now their biggest . The Byrds did not break up until 1973 and following Sweetheart , recorded six ! more albums - the last being by a briefly reformed first line up. They had a hit single with Chestnut Mare and the line up of Roger McGuinn, Clarence White , Skip Batten and Gene Parsons turned the band into one of the great live acts in their final years. I would suggest you perhaps read Timeless Flight Vols 1 and 2 by John Rogan if you want to really know about the band
Technically it was Chris Hillman and Rick Roberts who "discovered" Emmylou, singing folk music in a local DC club in 1971. They then recommended her to Gram, whom they knew was seeking a female singer to sing with him on his solo record. He was playing a date with them in Baltimore in '72, they gave him her number - he almost didn't make the call - he went to see her play the next night, the rest is history.