Grievous Angel
by Gram Parsons

From buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/01/2019 16:22 | #245288 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

It's a genuine achievement when an artist can be innovative and influential while at the same time creating something that feels familiar and timeless. Gram Parsons is one of those artists. He wrote songs that felt unironically straight out of a decades-old Nashville country tradition, yet managed to carve out for himself a unique niche in the history of both rock and country music. His songs are respectful of the conservative and Christian roots of the bluegrass and country artists who came before him, yet he really felt more at home among the innovators of the Bay Area scene of the late sixties and early seventies. If you've never heard of Gram Parsons, you'll immediately recognize most any track on Grievous Angel, particularly the oft-covered "Return of the Grievous Angel"--or at least, you'll insist you've heard it someplace before.

From Rug 02/20/2022 04:28 | #281562 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

In some ways, it feels like Gram might be a tad overrated. What he was was an excellent curator of country and folk songs and musicians, and this record is the pinnacle of Gram bringing material and personnel together- his performances on their own don't necessarily blow me away, but the whole package is worth the price of admission.

Gram was not a great singer, though he could sell a song even when his intonation betrayed him. But no matter-- he's joined on this by one of the greatest singers of all time.

I don't dig Country Music but I Dig Gram Parsons . A music hero a legend

Gram Parsons masterpiece. Grievous Angel, is a superb country album, released just after Parsons' death. Some superb songs and performances here; return of the grievous Angel, is a fantastic opener, there's a mock live version of Parsons', hickory wind, which he recorded with The Byrds on their, sweetheart of the rodeo, LP, there's the sublime, brass buttons, but highlight on the record for me, is the utterly beautiful, love hurts, sung with Emmylou Harris. Grievous angel, is an excellent record, the one for which Gram Parsons should always be remembered. Brilliant.