Gilded Palace of Sin/Burrito Deluxe [Original recording remastered] [Import]

1. Christine's Tune
2. Hot Burrito #1
3. Hot Burrito #2
4. Do You Know How It Feels
5. Hippie Boy
6. Lazy Days
7. Image Of Me
8. High Fashion Queen
9. If You Gotta Go
10. Man In The Fog
11. Farther Along
12. Older Guys
13. "Cody, Cody
14. God's Own Singer
15. Down In The Churchyard
16. Wild Horses
17. Sin City
18. Do Right Woman
19. Dark End Of The Street
20. My Uncle
See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Digitally remastered two-on-one of their first two LPs,1968's 'The Gilded Palace Of Sin' & 1969's 'Burrito Deluxe',the only albums they did with Gram Parsons. The line up herealso includes ex-Byrds Chris Hillman & Michael Clarke, plusthe Eagles' Bernie Leadon. 22 tracks total, including 'SinCity', 'Christine's Tune' and 'Dark End Of The Street'. 1997A&M release.

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Gilded Palace of Sin/Burrito Deluxe [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Average customer rating:

Great Double CD
One of Gram's best paired with a solid release on one CD
Great music at a bargain price
Gram Parsons-The father of Country-Rock!
Walking the line

The Gilded Palace of Sin/Burrito Deluxe
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Manufacturer: Ume Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024R2P
Release Date: 2004-08-09

Tracks:

Christine's Tune
Hot Burrito #1
Hot Burrito #2
Do You Know How It Feels
Hippie Boy
Lazy Days
Image Of Me
High Fashion Queen
If You Gotta Go
Man In The Fog
Farther Along
Older Guys
"Cody, Cody
God's Own Singer
Down In The Churchyard
Wild Horses
Sin City
Do Right Woman
Dark End Of The Street
My Uncle
Wheels
Juanita

Album Description

Digitally remastered two-on-one of their first two LPs,1968's 'The Gilded Palace Of Sin' & 1969's 'Burrito Deluxe',the only albums they did with Gram Parsons. The line up herealso includes ex-Byrds Chris Hillman & Michael Clarke, plusthe Eagles' Bernie Leadon. 22 tracks total, including 'SinCity', 'Christine's Tune' and 'Dark End Of The Street'. 1997A&M release.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Great Albums on a Single CD! the First Two Albums from the Fabled California Group featuring Former Byrds Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman. These Two Albums Represent the Mold that Many Other Southern California Bands Followed in Establishing the Laid Back California Country Sound. Songs Like "Sin City", "Wheels", "Farther Along" and their Cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" and Both "Hot Burritios" Are Just Some of the Many Songs that Others have Used as Inspiration. These Are Gram Parsons at the Peak of his Songwriting Powers Before He Would Leave to Pursue a Solo Career as a "Rock Star".

Customer Reviews:

Great Double CD.......2007-03-09

I really enjoyed this double CD. It showed me the roots of a lot 70's California Rock groups. You also can see an evolution between the 1st and 2nd CD.

One of Gram's best paired with a solid release on one CD.......2006-12-22

Gilded Palace of Sin is right up there with Sweetheart of the Rodeo and GP as the best of Gram Parsons' work. This disc presents that album alongside the Bros' second, less transcendent album, Burrito Deluxe. Both albums find Gram doing his thing as usual--country rock when Parsons was the most original name in the game, with some interesting arrangements and usually upper-end songwriting.

The first album included here is a classic, and the main reason for purchasing the CD. A lot of critics say that The Gilded Palace of Sin is Gram's best work ever. It doesn't really matter to me which album of his is ranked as #1--it's pretty arbitrary. No matter which is his very best, it's a really great album. Gram's songwriting (often with the aid of Hillman) is really strong here--from uptempo songs like the opener, "Christine's Song" and the scathing draft-dodging "My Uncle" to midtempo grinders like "Sin City" and "Wheels" (a personal favorite. He's got a knack for fusing genuine country with rock elements and providing some earnest lyrics that often bear his unique, characteristic wit and charm. Covers are well-chosen too; the two R&B tunes, "Do Right Woman" and "Dark End of the Street" fit right in with the straight up country. The two "Hot Burrito" songs are also two of the best, most emotional cuts on this album.

Parsons' sometimes thin voice sounds really good here--he sounds the best when he's singing a well-written song, conjuring a lot of moving emotion (you don't have to have the best voice, as long as you can sing like you really mean it). One of the best things about this album is the arrangements--not only is there some great pedal steel for those hardcore country fans, there's some tasteful keyboards and some real gnarly fuzzed-out electric guitar that lend this album a really unique sound and add a touch of almost psychedelia to the mix. It really adds to the classic status of this one, in my opinion. I can't forget to mention the closing track, a call for peace between hippies and country squares alike, with great spoken-word in the style of many country artists. None of this would work or sound authentic if Gram Parsons didn't really have his heart in it--his genuine delivery prevents the music from seeming tongue-in-cheek. The first album alone is reason enough to buy this CD and I heartily recommend it.

Burrito Deluxe definitely flags in quality in comparison with its predecessor. The songs aren't quite as good--"Older Guys" just seems kind of like a brainless fraternity romp, and "Image of Me" and "God's Own Singer" just aren't very convincingly written or performed (Gram doesn't really sound quite into it). "Lazy Days" is much better as a bonus track on Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The covers aren't that great either; "If You Gotta Go" is awkwardly arranged and "Wild Horses," even though the Bros released it before the Stones, drags quite a bit, especially for an album closer. I don't want to rag on it too much, though--the playing is still pretty good, with skillful pedal steel and a solid rhythm section. When Gram is into it ("Farther Along" and "Cody Cody," for example) it approaches the band's superior debut. Unfortunately, the noticeably lackluster songwriting and energy, combined with marginal sound (I was surprised how different the two albums sound in quality on the same CD) makes Burrito Deluxe definitely not an essential release. Fortunately, they're both on the same CD, so Burrito Deluxe works great as a bonus for the iconic Gilded Palace. I strongly recommend this CD and hope you enjoy it!

Great music at a bargain price.......2006-10-07

Sometimes there is justice in this world. The fact that the Flying Burrito Brothers' music is alive and well at the beginning of the new millenium bodes well for all of us. They were not well known back in 1969 and the early 70s. Their very brief time alloted to them in the film "Gimme Shelter" is indicative of their status in the world of popular music at the time. While they still may not sell a lot of records even today, at least their reputation as great musicians and as a talented group remains intact, and, if anything has grown with time. This collection has all the songs from their first two albums, which, to be truthful, are the only essential recordings by the Burritos. These recordings coincide with the tenure of the very talented singer/songwriter Gram Parsons, who is a legend today. Chris Hillman's contribution to the Burritos are often slighted, but he was a full partern with Parsons in the creation, playing, singing, and songwriting for the group. One could argue that the ying/yang of Parsons/Hillman, trading off roles of wild-emotional/calm-restrained really made the group what it is. They had talented collaborators, too, with the late, great Sneaky Pete on steel guitar, Chris Etheridge on bass for the first album, and Bernie Leaden on guitar for the second. Michael Clarke, like Hillman and Parsons a former member of the Byrds, provided the drumming on the second album. My only complaint about this collection is that the songs are not in the original order, but that's a minor complaint for this well-price offering.

Gram Parsons-The father of Country-Rock!.......2006-10-05

The first album is very mellow with great harmonies. It sounds like Buck Owens early in his career with the "freight train" songs combined with the late '60s Buck Owens and the finger picking of Don Rich with examples from "Where Does the Good Times Go" "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" "Sweet Rosie Jones" "I've Got You On My Mind Again" and "Tall Dark Stranger." The second album has more variety from gospel to polka to a Bill Anderson-type song to old school honky tonk. What I mean is "Farther Along" "Man in the Fog" "High Fashion Queen" and "If You Gotta Go." These two albums really knocked me out musically speaking. I wish Country Music now sounded more like this. Really enjoyed it!

Walking the line.......2006-08-11

This two-fer CD gives consumers the opportunity to purchase remastered versions of the first two releases by this seminal band from the late 1960's at a ridiculously affordable price. The two discs were released in 1968 ('Gilded Palace of Sin') and 1969 ('Burrito Deluxe'), and in their later incarnation, the artists involved composed 3/5 of what was once known as 'The Byrds' (guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist Gram Parsons, drummer Michael Clarke, and bassist and vocalist Chris Hillman). This band is often credited with pioneering the Country-Rock genre, although those kudo's must certainly be shared with Roger McGuinn's Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, and myriad other bands who dabbled in the effort. The Flying Burrito Brothers, however, certainly embraced the new, unfolding sound unlike any predecessor. Unfortunately, since youth culture was still thoroughly immersed in the sounds of acid-rock and the emerging heavy-metal genre, devoting entire albums to country-rock spelled disaster for the FBB's. Their debut album sold only 50,000 copies.

Featuring two rhythm guitarists, a steel pedal guitar, and a bassist, along with four session drummers, 'Gilded Palace...' was inclined to sound like nothing previously known in rock parlance. The band walked the line between country and rock, more often emphasizing the country in tunes such as 'Do Right Woman', with it's tight harmonies and sweet steel guitar courtesy of Sneeky Pete Kleinow, and 'Do You Know How It Feels'. Most of the lyrics pursue traditional country music themes, such as love lost ('Hot Burrito #1) with it's Byrd-like chiming guitar sound, or religion, such as a trio of songs from 'Burrito Deluxe', 'Farther Along' ("we'll all understand it in the by and by"), 'God's Own Singer', and 'In the Churchyard'. The Burrito's could be musically adventurous, of course, and such fare can be spotted in tracks such as 'Christine's Tune', which sounds like a precursor to the Eagles' 'Lyin' Eyes', 'My Uncle', an upbeat celebration of draft evasion, which seemingly misappropriates the traditional patriotic sentiments of country music. Two songs resonate with melodies reminicent of Neil Young's 'Old Country Waltz' from his 'American Stars & Bars' album ('Sin City' and 'Image of Me'), while 'Dark End of the Street' and 'Older Guys' (with a massive, pounding bass line from Hillman) sound Eagle-ish. And when listening to 'Juanita', see if you can't hear strains of 'I Like the Christian Life' simmering beneath.

Instrumentally, the Burrito Brothers could be experimental as well. On 'Wheels', a song not surprisingly about goin' mobile, Gram Parsons makes intriguing use of the synthesizer to extract an oversided growl, enlarging on the traditional country sounds supporting it. On 'Hippie Boy', the largely spoken lyrics meander around a dialog between a redneck and a hippie, with the apparent moral of the tale being, "never carry more than you can eat". The shortest track on the disc is the 1:48 cover of Bob Dylan's bouncy 'If You Gotta Go', featuring a rare electric guitar lead from Bernie Leadon, while the longest track (6:20) is the closer, another cover, this time of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards composition, 'Wild Horses'. The FBB version is not radically different from, nor better or worse than the Stones' version... which is a compliment in itself. 'Man In the Fog' is unique for Leon Russell's piano and accordian-driven melody. One of my favorite Chris Hillman compositions, 'Hot Burrito #2', is given a restrained and lavished production here, which veils it's potential as a great rock and roll number (try to catch a version of this in the able hands of Stephen Stills and Manassas, with Chris on lead vocals... it's a very hot burrito!).

'Gilded Palace of Sin' and 'Burrito Deluxe' possess a historical and musical value that add significant clout to their merit as an artistic piece. Probably half the tunes offered spur associations to classic country-rock excursions that would follow by bands such as Stills' Manassas and the Eagles, and it's fascinating in itself to hear "where it all began". The quality of the musicianship is also without question. The only shortcoming is that some of the music, while revolutionary in the hands of rock and roller's in their prime, is nothing more than traditional country music. Had the band tilted just a bit more in favor of their rock roots, these albums would not only have sold better, but also played better. These are essential recordings for anyone favoring the work of the latter day Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and artists such as Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills, and the Eagles.