Still feeling blue (Gram Parsons) (LP 1044-1045)

Gram Parsons  GP (CD, Reprise Records, 1973) ***  

Gram Parsons  Grievous Angel (CD, Reprise Records, 1974) ***

Genre: Country rock

Places I remember: The Warehouse

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Return Of The Grevious Angel (Grevious Angel)

Gear costume: Medley Live From Northern Quebec (Cash On The Barrelhead/Hickory Wind) (Grevious Angel)

Active compensatory factors: I'm a Johnny come lately to Gram Parsons. He leans a bit too close to the country end of the country rock continuum for me to be an acolyte.

Instead I love him in the Byrds when he doesn't have to carry every song. Still, there is plenty to like about his easy singing style and the country rock sounds. 

This is his debut solo album and his second, released posthumously, coming as it does from those same sessions - so it sounds like a double album really. There is a unity of sound and Emmylou Harris contributes significantly to her duets with Parsons over the two albums.

Where do they all belong? That's it for Gram - I'm not really interested in the live albums and lost songs stuff that's come out since his death.