The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969) [Reissue 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:42 minutes | Scans included | 1,51 GB
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The Gilded Palace of Sin is the first album by the country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers, released in 1969. It continued Gram Parsons’ and Chris Hillman’s work in modern country music, fusing traditional sources like folk and country with other forms of popular music like gospel, soul, and psychedelic rock. In 2003, the album was ranked number 192 in Rolling Stone the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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The Flying Burrito Brothers – Burrito Deluxe (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:58 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Burrito Deluxe is the second album by the country rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers, released in May 1970 on A&M Records, catalogue 4258. It is the last to feature Gram Parsons prior to his dismissal from the group. It contains the first issued version of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-written song “Wild Horses,” released almost a year before The Rolling Stones own take on it appeared on Sticky Fingers.
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The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Last Of The Red Hot Burritos (1972/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:52 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Rock
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Gram Parsons was hardly the only worthwhile musician in the Flying Burrito Brothers, but the group’s fusion of a country sound with a rock & roll mentality was largely his brainchild, and though the Burritos soldiered on for a while after he left for a solo career, their focus was never quite the same. In 1972 the bandmembers announced they were calling it a day, and the live set Last of the Red Hot Burritos was intended to be their final album. By this point, Chris Hillman was the band’s de facto leader (he was the only member of the group who had appeared on the Burritos’ classic debut album) and Last of the Red Hot Burritos reflects Hillman’s passion for bluegrass, with a three-song acoustic mini-set appearing alongside tunes from the band’s studio albums, as well as including a few songs that the group had never recorded prior to this concert. The tenor of the Flying Burrito Brothers on Last of the Red Hot Burritos was very different from the “Cosmic American Music” of The Gilded Palace of Sin, with more funky groove in the rock and more rural purity in the country, but there’s no arguing that Hillman had put together a first-class band, including Byron Berline on fiddle, Al Perkins on guitar and steel, and Roger Bush on upright bass, and they play this material with impressive taste and feeling along with truly exceptional technique. As it happens, Last of the Red Hot Burritos was hardly the end of the line for the Flying Burrito Brothers, as Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Chris Ethridge would relaunch the group in 1975 and various editions of the band would record and tour through the end of the ’90s, but this album was a belated but heartfelt farewell to the Chris Hillman era of the Burritos, and speaks to his quiet strength as a bandleader as well as this great band’s legacy.
– Mark Deming
The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:24 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
By 1969, Gram Parsons had already built the foundation of the country-rock movement through his work with the International Submarine Band and the Byrds, but his first album with the Flying Burrito Brothers, The Gilded Palace of Sin, was where he revealed the full extent of his talents, and it ranks among the finest and most influential albums the genre would ever produce. As a songwriter, Parsons delivered some of his finest work on this set; “Hot Burrito No. 1” and “Hot Burrito No. 2” both blend the hurt of classic country weepers with a contemporary sense of anger, jealousy, and confusion, and “Sin City” can either be seen as a parody or a sincere meditation on a city gone mad, and it hits home in both contexts. Parsons was rarely as strong as a vocalist as he was here, and his covers of “Dark End of the Street” and “Do Right Woman” prove just how much he had been learning from R&B as well as C&W. And Parsons was fortunate enough to be working with a band who truly added to his vision, rather than simply backing him up; the distorted swoops of Sneaky Pete Kleinow’s fuzztone steel guitar provides a perfect bridge between country and psychedelic rock, and Chris Hillman’s strong and supportive harmony vocals blend flawlessly with Parsons’ (and he also proved to be a valuable songwriting partner, collaborating on a number of great tunes with Gram). While The Gilded Palace of Sin barely registered on the pop culture radar in 1969, literally dozens of bands (the Eagles most notable among them) would find inspiration in this music and enjoy far greater success. But no one ever brought rock and country together quite like the Flying Burrito Brothers, and this album remains their greatest accomplishment. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Flying Burrito Brothers (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:32 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
The Flying Burrito Bros is the third album by the country rock group, The Flying Burrito Brothers, released in the spring of 1971. Before recording sessions for the album began, Chris Hillman fired Gram Parsons from the band, leaving Hillman and “Sneaky” Pete Kleinow as the only original continuing members. In Parsons’ place, the band hired a young unknown musician named Rick Roberts, who later was the primary lead singer of Firefall. Guitarist Bernie Leadon would also leave the band shortly after the album’s release, going on to co-found the Eagles.
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