Artist:  THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS         

Title:  “The Gilded Palace of Sin”  

Label:  A & M ~ SP-4175.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is silver with dark gray text.   

Year of Issue:   1969

Condition:

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb. A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG++ with bright artwork. Seams, spine, and surfaces are excellent except for very slight beginning of splits at top right and bottom right corners, each smaller than one inch. Reverse is clean with no writing, stickers, or deletion/cutout indications. Overall a very fine jacket.

Includes the original A&M RECORDS factory sleeve in excellent condition.

Track Listing: 

Side One:   

Christine’s Tune Sin City Do Right Woman Dark End of the Street My Uncle

Side Two:

Wheels Juanita Hot Burrito #1 Hot Burrito #2 Do You Know How It Feels Hippie Boy

Review:

“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 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.”

(courtesy Mark Deming, allmusic.com.)  

 

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