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Gram Parsons - Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons, 1965-1966 Audio CD

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Gram Parsons Band: Gram Parsons
Title: Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons, 1965-1966
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Release Date: 2001-01-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Codine 2: Wheel of Fortune 3: Another Side of This Life 4: High Flyin' Bird 5: November Nights 6: Zah's Blues 7: Reputation 8: That's the Bag I'm In 9: Willie Jean 10: They Still Go Down 11: Pride of Man 12: Last Thing on My Mind 13: Hey Nellie Nellie 14: She's the Woman I Love/Good Time Music 15: Brass Buttons 16: I Just Can't Take It Anymore 17: Searchin' 18: Candy Man

Worth buying only if you want everything Gram ever did
Obviously these recordings were not finished work. I was disappointed. I'm sure that with good production the recording would have been excellent.


Just a guy with a guitar
The accumulation is just a bit monotonous. I'm glad I have these songs now, but Gram was working on his guitar skills when he made this, and I know it took a lot of work for anyone to be able to play the guitar this well and sing some songs that are worthy of that much work. There have been years when I just played rhythm guitar for hundreds of songs like riding on a train, which slows down and stops at a station, but when it starts up again, it is like riding along on the same train just as before. I think the songs are good. I enjoy them. But after a few, there is not likely to be a beginning of the next one that really lights your fire.


The Facts
The recordings are in fact dramatically different--less mature--than later work, but that's what makes them so interesting. If you're a Gram fan, you'll probably disagree heartily with the preceding review when you hear these sounds. It's enchanting to hear that youthful, at-times-frail-at-times-powerful voice. You just might cherish this one.


Not Worthy Of The Legacy
As other reviewers have mentioned, the material is folk, not country or rock. Folks, I love Gram just as much if not more than the next guy, but I have to advise you to spend your money elsewhere. Which there's nothing wrong with; after all, much of Gram's writing was influenced by folk. However, as you listen to this disc, it's clear that Gram has not yet found his voice that would elevate his songs into the cosmos. The sound is surprisingly good, but this is clearly the work of an artist in the embryonic stage. It's almost as if Gram came to the realization after these recordings that he wasn't going to become the next Bob Dylan. It doesn't even begin to approach the greatness he would attain starting with the ISB and onwards. If you feel you must hear this disc, borrow it from somebody. It's not something you will play repeatedly.


A Gram of Folk
I am not saying thats is not a great album because it is. This is a folk album not a country/rock album. The sound is really good for home recordings. Grams singing and playing is very clean and neat not something that most of us have heard before. If your a big Gram Parsons fan pick this up its quiet a find.


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