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Length
  
98:18

Release date
  
6 November 2007

Genre
  
Country rock

Producer
  
Dave Prinz

Label
  
Amoeba Records

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Released
  
November 6, 2007 (2007-11-06)

Recorded
  
The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, April 4 and 6, 1969

Sin City The Very Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers (2002)
  
Gram Parsons Archives Vol.1 Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (2007)

Artist
  
The Flying Burrito Brothers

Similar
  
The Flying Burrito Brothers albums, Country rock albums

Gram Parsons Archives Vol.1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 is a twenty-seven song, two-disc set released November 6, 2007, by Amoeba Records, taken from two shows at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco when the Flying Burrito Brothers opened for the Grateful Dead. The album features live versions of several songs never officially released by the band, such as "She Once Lived Here" and "Train Song".

Contents

Amoeba Records co-founder Dave Prinz found tapes of the two shows among the 16,000 hours of material in the Grateful Dead's vault, and after considerable lobbying, convinced Grateful Dead sound engineer Owsley Stanley, who oversaw the Dead's material, to license the Burritos’ material to Amoeba's record label. It was regarded as a "coup" because Stanley, a.k.a. the Bear, hadn't licensed anything from his personal vault since 1970.

Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten sits in on two tracks.

Disc 1 (recorded April 4, 1969)

  1. "Close Up the Honky Tonks" (Red Simpson) – 2:38
  2. "Dark End of the Street" (Chips Moman, Dan Penn) – 3:57
  3. Medley: "Undo the Right"/"Somebody's Back in Town" (Willie Nelson, Hank Cochran) (Don Helms, Theodore Wilburn, Doyle Wilburn) – 3:16
  4. "She Once Lived Here" (Autry Inman) – 3:54
  5. "We've Got to Get Ourselves Together" (Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett, Carl Radle) – 3:31
  6. "Lucille" (Richard Penniman, Al Collins) – 2:38
  7. "Hot Burrito #1" (Chris Ethridge, Gram Parsons) – 3:40
  8. "Hot Burrito #2" (Ethridge, Parsons) – 4:05
  9. "Long Black Limousine" (Vern Stovall) – 3:38
  10. "Mental Revenge" (Mel Tillis) – 3:07
  11. "Sin City" (Parsons, Hillman) – 4:02

Bonus tracks:

  1. "Thousand Dollar Wedding" (Parsons) – 4:24
  2. "When Will I Be Loved" (Phil Everly) – 2:16

Disc 1 ends with two unreleased home recordings — “Thousand Dollar Wedding", recorded in Los Angeles in 1969 by Jimmi Seiter, and "When Will I Be Loved", recorded in New York City in 1967, also by Seiter.

Disc 2 (recorded April 6, 1969)

  1. Medley: "Undo the Right"/"Somebody's Back in Town" (Nelson/Cochran) (Helms/T Wilburn/D Wilburn) – 3:16
  2. "She Once Lived Here" (Inman) – 4:06
  3. "Mental Revenge" (Tillis) – 3:13
  4. "We've Got to Get Ourselves Together" (B Bramlett/D Bramlett/Radle) – 3:43
  5. "Lucille" (Penniman/Collins) – 2:39
  6. "Sin City" (Parsons/Hillman) – 4:08
  7. "You Win Again" (Hank Williams) – 3:06
  8. "Hot Burrito #1" (Ethridge/Parsons) – 3:53
  9. "Hot Burrito #2" (Ethridge/Parsons) – 4:00
  10. "You're Still on My Mind" (Luke McDaniel) – 2:34
  11. "Train Song" (Parsons/Hillman) – 3:43
  12. "Long Black Limousine" (Stovall) – 3:15
  13. "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" (Cindy Walker) – 3:18
  14. "Do Right Woman" (C. Moman/D. Penn) - 5:01

Personnel

  • Gram Parsons – lead vocals, guitar, piano
  • Chris Hillman – guitar, backing vocals
  • Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
  • Chris Ethridge – bass guitar
  • Michael Clarke – drums
  • Tom Constanten - organ on "Hot Burrito #1" (both discs) and "Hot Burrito #2" (disc 2 only)

    • Songs

    Close Up the Honky Tonks2:38
    Dark End of the Street4:05
    Medley: Undo the Right / Somebody's Back in Town3:21

    References

    Gram Parsons Archives Vol.1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 Wikipedia
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