Gram Parsons
I've just started reading Twenty Thousand Roads by David N. Meyer, a Bio of Gram Parsons. So far so good. I'll review the book when I'm finished with it. It got me to pull out the Gram Parsons cds and give them a spin.
Was he a genius? Was he just another Casualty? I'm still undecided. He did leave some great music and some great legends.
So today's post is Safe at Home - the International Submarine Band.
Gram's first true recordings. By the time this record was released he had left the group to join the Byrds and was making Sweetheart of the Rodeo. That's another post all it's own.
Overall Safe at Home is pretty good. Some great covers and a few originals. This is the ten song version. I believe there was another release with a bonus track or two. If you use YouTube there are posts of some other tracks, possibly from the first singles. I'm not sure and haven't bothered to investigate.
So enjoy Safe at Home and Gram Parsons' Cosmic American Music
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Blues Incorporated
Here's the first album by Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated.
Korner along with Cyril Davis basically kick started the British r & b scene which would launch the careers of the Rolling Stones, Cream and countless others. Davis would eventually leave Blues Incorporated to form the Cyril Davis All Stars.
Neither Korner or Davis would achieve the commercial success that their protegees would.
This first disc is a must for Brit Blues fans. Great songs and arrangements. davis is in fine form on the harmonica and Long John Baldry shows that he already knew his way around the blues.
Awesome stuff.
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