Return of the Grievous Angel

I almost missed this, but today would have been Gram Parsons' 70th Birthday. Despite the fact that he lived hard and died young, he had a huge influence on American music. Additionally he discovered Emmylou Harris. So here he is performing "Return of the Grievous Angel" with Emmylou. This is just audio, but the images used include his infamous Nudie suit with a cross on the back and marijuana leaves on the front.

Hot Burrito #1

Marking that today would have been Gram Parson's 69th birthday (11/05/46), here he is with The Flying Burrito Brothers in a video for "Hot Burrito #1".

Hickory Wind

Lucinda Williams covers my favorite Gram Parsons song—"Hickory Wind".

Kasey Chambers

A couple videos from one of my favorite songwriters, and a great country singer from down under, Kasey Chambers.

"If I Could"



The Dead Ringer Band—consisting of Kasey, her father, mother and brother—perform the Gram Parson's song, "Sin City".



"The Captain"

The Dark End of the Street

The last song on my last post was Marti Jones and Don Dixon's performance of The Dark End of the Street. This is such a great song that I have decided to do an entire post with covers of it.

Written in 1966 by Dan Penn and Chips Moman, this is the first recording, which was done by James Carr.



Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner



Gram Parsons with The Flying Burrito Brother



Eva Cassidy

Emmylou Harris - In the Beginning

I normally only do three post a week on this blog, but I could probably do an entire Emmylou Harris month. Instead of that, I am just go to do an extra post this week.

Emmylou Harris first came to national attention sing with Gram Parson.

Here is some audio of Parsons describing how they meet.



The is some video of Parsons and Harris singing together, but it is not that great, so here is just the audio of them singing "Love Hurts".



After Parsons death in 1973 Harris wrought this song about her feelings, "Boulder to Birmingham".



There are several videos of Harris singing my favorite Parsons song, "Hickory Wind", but they all have embedding block, so I can't include them on this block. Here is a video from 1975 that you can click out to.