Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sleepless Nights (CD)

All Music Guide

AM Records seemed to have exhausted its stock of Flying Burrito Brothers outtakes on Close Up the Honky-Tonks in 1974, but the continuing posthumous regard for Gram Parsons caused the company to unearth another seven tracks, six covers of country classics like "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" and "Green, Green Grass of Home," plus a version of the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women," all originally intended for what annotator Bud Scoppa called "a pure, honest country album" that the Burritos apparently never finished. To this half-of-an-album, AM added two tracks from Close Up the Honky-Tonks and three Parsons solo outtakes (with Emmylou Harris on backup vocals) licensed from Reprise Records. The result, credited to "Gram Parsons/The Flying Burrito Brothers," is a tribute to Parsons' heartbreaking tenor, especially because the tracks are little more than underproduced demos. It's not on par with The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe, or G.P., but should be of interest to fans. - Will...iam Ruhlmann, All Music Guide Read more Less