Album: The Gilded Palace of Sin
Year: 1969
There was no doubt that Gram Parsons followed his own path, and after successfully wresting the equally willful Roger McGuinn onto that path for Sweetheart of The Rodeo, he left The Byrds and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with Chris Hillman, who’d been on that path from the start.
Because people worked insanely fast back then, The Gilded Palace of Sin came out only six months after Sweetheart of The Rodeo, and kicked off with the utterly soaring “Christine’s Tune”
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