Love Gram Parson is one of my favorites! And this tribute album has been a favorite for a long time. Cowboys Junkies doing this song is simply fantastic!! So amazingly great.
Not only is this the best cover version of a timeless song by Gram Parsons it's one of the best cover songs i've ever heard. I highly recommend this CD to anyone that loves great Americana Roots Music.
To all the naysayers - I think Gram would have loved this cover. The music exactly mirrors the darkness of the lyrics. I love GP and I love this cover and entire album. Emmylou was his soul mate and if she approved of all these covers I think that tribute is plenty good enough for me.
I was going to say exactly the same. This is up there with Hendrix's cover of All Along The Watchtower as one of the best covers of all time. There are so many good covers on the Grevious Angel covers album, this is amongst the very best on there. The Mavericks' take on Hot Burrito is brilliant too...
@@brucedillinger9448 Well, we can look at the artists whom he CHOSE to record with: Emmy Lou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. They have pretty powerful voices, not breathy recitative ones. Moreover, he pronounced himself a country artist, and a country rock artist....this psychedelia pop '90s isn't something he would choose for his music. But we all do like different things, that part you got right.
I bought this CD when it was firs released and it is a great primer for all the idiots that think "The Eagles" invented the whole genre of Country and Rock fused...and do not know the first thing about Gram Parsons, but like the Stones, "Wild Horses", The Eagles and the stuff played on CMT. Love GP and this song is total greatness.
I think “country rock” started so to speak when James Burton teamed up with Ricky Nelson and recorded Gene Pitney’s Hello Mary Lou. Songs of this nature were recorded prior but that was the big tune that out put the genre on the map and made it a viable genre.
Yes, the Grevious Angel CD has great covers from beginning to end. Two other great covers by others: Lyle Lovett's cover of the Robert Hunter-Jerry Garcia song 'Friend Of The Devil'. And I just discovered the live version by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers of the same Grateful Dead song. Picture Perfect!
When CJ does a cover, they freakin' COVER IT...! I ask people if they heard of Cowboy Junkies and they give me a funny look. "Who?" So, I guess I'm a member of a cult.
I bought this CD and it is a great primer for all the idiots that think "The Eagles" invited the whole genre of Country and Rock fused...and do not know the first thing about Gram Parsons but like the Stones, "Wild Horses"
Oh God, thank you ... I concur wholeheartedly. This is just trendy 90s breathiness, that sounds very dated today.Gram's timeless original shines brighter than ever. He was a true artist.
Not bad if you like funeral dirges. I gave this cover a fair shot by listening to it all the way through, and it took all I had. This just flat sucks. It's a sonic sleeping pill.
They did, all this trendy breathiness ... Gram Parsons' original version far superior in every way. This screams '80s, even if it was recorded in the '90s. Sounds very dated.
