"The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, released 50 years ago this week, is one of the foundational documents of country rock. But it could’ve been a much different album. 'My original idea for Sweetheart of the Rodeo was to do a double album, a chronological album starting out with old-timey music, not bluegrass, but pre-bluegrass,' Roger McGuinn, the band’s leader, told Rolling Stone in 1970. 'And then get into like the 1930s advanced version of it, move it up to modern country, the ’40s and ’50s with steel guitar and pedal steel guitar—kind of do an article on the evolution of that type of music. Then cut it there and kind of bring it up into electronic music and a kind of space music and going into futuristic music.' The man largely responsible for bringing McGuinn’s ambitious vision back to earth was Gram Parsons, a mostly unknown 22-year-old Harvard drop-out from Florida armed with a sizable trust fund and a sweet Southern accent. ..."
Pitchfork: Gram Parsons’ Cosmic American Trip (Video)
YouTube: The Byrds w/Gram Parsons - Mr. Spaceman
2008 March: Gram Parsons, 2011 March: Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris. Liberty Hall, Texas, 1973, 2012 May: Sweetheart of the Rodeo, 2013 January: Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, 2013 September: Flying Burrito Brothers - Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969, 2014 February: The Gilded Palace of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers (1969), 2014 March: Burrito Deluxe - The Flying Burrito Brothers (1970), 2014 May: GP (1973), 2014 September: Grievous Angel (1974), 2015 October: Top 10 Gram Parsons Songs, 2016 November: Death of Gram Parsons, 2017 March: Sleepless Nights (1976), 2017 April: The Complete Reprise Sessions (2006)
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