1973 W Promo GRAM PARSONS GP BYRDS BURRITO BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE

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MINT GATEFOLD = WHITE LABEL PROMO

+ ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

unavailable with regular release

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•  GRAM PARSONS 
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• USA - PROMO - MS 2123 - REPRISE RECORDS - stereo

1. TOP CLEAN
2. ORIGINAL WHITE LABEL PROMOTIONAL
3. MINT = IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP
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4. The desperate sadness of these compositions stand outside of both time and place...."GP" is simply the finest record of its kind...blazingly, unimpeachable brilliance...
   
   This is a collectible 1971 pressing by the illustrious Gram Parsons whose work with The International Submarine Band, The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers and even the Rolling Stones influenced the 1969-1971 rural-rock 'mod squad' happening in things to come in early '70s ...
   
   In the pursuit of what he labeled "Cosmic American Music," Gram Parsons--with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist--helped invent rural-rock, forever changing the relationship between the two genres. 
5. "GP", released in 1973 is the only studio album on which Parsons served as the lone bandleader. With the help of Elvis Presley's backing band and a then unknown singer named Emmylou Harris on harmony vocals, Parsons wrapped up rural-rock, R&B, and rock & roll in one delicious package.
   
6. Parsons had surfaced with the latter-day Byrds, pushing them southwards with the heavily country-fried classic Sweetheart of the Rodeo album in 1968. Parsons soon left the Byrds to team up with ex-Byrds Chris Hillman and form the The Flying Burrito Brothers. But by this time, heroin was as much of a Parsons addiction as rural rock and he was even asked to leave France by not so clean-living Rolling Stone Keith Richards.
   
   Chris Hillman saw a young girl singing in a club in Washington, D.C and luckily thought of Gram. Teaming up the two singers would be a stroke of genius and resulted in Parsons’ first solo album, GP. It’s a vocal marriage sent from the gods as Emmylou and Gram effortlessly sway in musical motion, like two parts of the same vocal whole effortlessly combining to eke out every ounce of emotion from the above-standard songs selected by Parsons for this.
   
   There’s also a stellar band in which the fiddle player extraordinaire Byron Berline shines throughout, notably on “We’ll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning” and “Still Feeling Blue.” But if Berline is a stand-out musician, guitar fans also are served pretty well thanks to nifty work from James Burton and some steel guitar master touches from Buddy Emmons and Al Perkins.
   
   The vulnerability in Parsons’ voice is part of what made him such a compelling tragic figure and on tracks like “She” and “A Song for You,” he expresses his fears and despair with such vocal rawness and honesty that the songs are truly heartbreaking. With Emmylou filling in when his vocals just can’t take much more pain on “We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning,” the song truly benefits from the obvious care and simpatico that Emmylou brings to the moment.
   
   On a lighter note, when Parsons is upbeat on “How Much I’ve Lied” he, Emmylou and the band create the definitive rural-rock blueprint, instructions that the Eagles would take to the limit
7. Side One
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   “Still Feeling Blue”
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    “We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning”
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    “A Song for You”
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    “Streets of Baltimore”
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    “She”
14. Side Two
15. “That’s All it Took”
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    “The New Soft Shoe”
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    “Kiss the Children”
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    “Cry One More Time”
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    “How much I’ve Lied”
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    “Big Mouth Blues”
21.          CONDITION:
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23. The cover: rated: MINT perfect BEAUTY, Flat & Square THICK Gatefold cover STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP with Gram Parsons PROMO-only "Bio" attached to back cover (see) Exact colors as released in '73, has no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

1. The vinyl: Rated: essentially MINT having no scuff lines or not any scratches ~ expect to play flawless on both brightly shiny sides and...both WHITE PROMO Reprise labels are very clean