Sold Date: January 23, 2015
Start Date: January 8, 2015
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ARTIST: Gram Parsons
TITLE: Grievous Angel
FORMAT: LP (180-gram)
LABEL: Reprise
CATALOG #: RS-2171

RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW

DESCRIPTION: Limited edition 180-gram vinyl reissue of landmark 1974 release. With Emmylou Harris.

"Gram Parsons fondness for drugs and high living are said to have been catching up with him while he was recording Grievous Angel, and sadly he wouldn't live long enough to see it reach record stores, dying from a drug overdose in the fall of 1973. Much of the same band that played on his solo debut were brought back for this set, and they perform with the same effortless grace and authority (especially guitarist James Burton and fiddler Byron Berline). As a vocal duo, Parsons and Emmylou Harris only improved on this set, turning in a version of "Love Hurts" so quietly impassioned and delicately beautiful that it's enough to make you forget Roy Orbison ever recorded it. And while he didn't plan on it, Parsons could hardly have picked a better closing gesture than "In My Hour of Darkness." One would be hard pressed to name an artist who made an album this strong only a few weeks before their death -- or at any time of their life, for that matter." - Mark Deming & allmusic.com

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