GRAM PARSONS

Under Your Spell Again


Liberated Colosseum bootleg

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CD 1:

1. Rip It Up (The Legends, 1964)
2. Sum Up Broke (International Submarine Band Columbia 45, 1967)
3. One Day Week (International Submarine Band Columbia 45, 1967)
4. Hickory Wind (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
5. Sing Me Back Home (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
6. The Christian Life (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
7. Under Your Spell Again (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
8. You Don't Miss Your Water (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
9. Eight Miles High (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
10. Space Odyssey (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
11. Tribal Gathering (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds)
12, Sin City (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
13. Take a Message To Mary (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
14. She Thinks I Still Care (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
15. Christine's Tune (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
16. Sweet Dream Baby (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
17. Wake Up Little Susie (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969)
18. Buckaroo (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
19. Another Place, Another Time (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
20. High on a Hilltop (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
21. She Once Lived Here (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
22. Hot Burrito #1 (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
23. Everyone Loves a Winner (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)

CD 2:

1. Race With the Wind (Gram Parsons 1964)
2. How Much I Lied (GP sessions demos 1972)
3. The New Soft Shoe (GP sessions demos 1972)
4. Still Felling Blue (GP sessions demos 1972)
5. A Song For You (GP sessions demos 1972)
6. Big Mouth Blues (GP sessions demos 1972)
7. Kiss the Children (GP sessions demos 1972)
8. Fallen Angels (GP sessions demos 1972)
9. Windowmaker (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73)
10. Love Hurts (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73)
11. Sin City (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73)
12. You're Still On My Mind (Flying Burrito Brothers, Avalon Ballroom, S.F. 4/6/69)
13. Undo the Right>Somebody's Back In Town (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
14. Lucille (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
15. I Threw Away the Rose (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
16. Train Song (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69)
17. Six Days On the Road (Fallen Angels, Liberty Hall, Houston 2/23/73)
18. Close Up the Honky Tonks (Fallen Angels, Liberty Hall, Houston 2/23/73)
19. We'll Sweep Out the Ashes In the Morning (Fallen Angels, 1973 tour)
20. Return of the Grevious Angel (Alternate Studio Versions, 1973)
21. Hearts On Fire (Alternate Studio Versions, 1973)

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Gram Parsons
Under Your Spell Again (Colosseum)

By Paul Cantin Author�s blog �

The brevity of Gram Parsons� life inherently magnifies the importance of any documents that can inform our understanding of his talent.
Though the official Parsons canon contains more than enough to justify his stature, it�s a meager catalogue compared to other legends
who stuck around this mortal coil a good while longer. As such, it�s no surprise to see bits and pieces of Parsons� rarities,
unreleased cuts and live work surfacing on bootlegs, with mixed results.

Resourceful Gramophiles have been blessed with a minor flood of illicit releases.
The Tendolar label�s Byrdaholics includes a live tape of the Gram-era Byrds in Rome circa 1968.
The same label also issued Saddle Up The Palomino, described as a sound board recording from a June �69 Los Angeles Burritos performance
but obviously sourced from a tape many generations removed from the master.
Much more rewarding are a pair of quality live Burritos �69 CD-Rs released by unnamed labels: Sin City and The High Lonesome Sound Of

Now comes the double-disc compendium Under Your Spell Again, by far the most ambitious attempt yet to scoop the choicest unreleased material. Apart from some steep dropoffs in sonic quality, there�s plenty here that warrants an alert to the Parsons faithful.
Under Your Spell Again runs in roughly chronological order, beginning with a raw-quality radio tape of Parsons� early combo, the Legends,
performing �Rip It Up�, followed by the wonderful �Sum Up Broke/One Day Week�, a jangling,
pounding single by the International Submarine Band, captured here in perfect audio quality.

Things then leapfrog ahead to a muffled audience recording of the Byrds� eight-song 1968 set at London�s Roundhouse,
described here as Parsons� Byrds swan song. What it lacks in sonic fidelity is more than compensated by the chance
to hear the short-lived Sweetheart-era Byrds backing Parsons on �Hickory Wind�, �Sing Me Back Home�, �The Christian Life�,
Buck Owens� �Under Your Spell Again� and �You Don�t Miss Your Water�, as well as hearing Gram pitch in on �Eight Miles High�.

A six-song tape from the Burritos� set at the �69 Seattle Pop Festival is marginally better sound quality,
mixing covers such as �Take A Message To Mary� with their own �Sin City� and �Christine�s Tune�.
Although excerpts from the Tendolar Palomino tape pop up on disc two, Colosseum also has unearthed a better-quality tape
from a different Palomino set, including a rigorous workout on Owens� signature tune, �Buckaroo�.
Parsons� vocals are occasionally shaky, and his between-song patter is all but drowned out by audience chatter.
It�s an important reminder that although he is celebrated in death, he spent most of his life struggling for recognition.

The second disc yields the most startling artifacts. A 1964 �House Of The Rising Sun� sound-alike demo called �Race With The Wind�
leads into a stunning six-song tape of a �72 acoustic demo session. Although the sound is only so-so,
it�s a thrill to eavesdrop as Gram yells for Byron Berline to take a fiddle solo on �Still Feeling Blue�
or leads his troupe through a tentative version of �A Song For You�.

Further on, there�s a superlative tape of a �73 Boston radio session with the Fallen Angels.
�These are bus songs we sing at the back of the bus,� an impossibly young-sounding Emmylou Harris tells the DJ.
Apart from Parsons� cynical, road-weary banter, there are some exquisite performances, including wrenching duets with Harris on �Love Hurts�
and �Sin City�.

After that, disc two�s Burritos live tracks and a handful of muddy �73 Fallen Angels cuts are anticlimactic.
But a pristine live version of �We�ll Sweep Out The Ashes� and studio outtakes of �Return Of The Grievous Angel� and �Hearts On Fire�
bring matters to a fitting, fine close. Photos of the Burritos onstage have been surprisingly rare, but the deluxe packaging includes
color shots of Gram and band in full flight. The 12-page booklet includes an offbeat �69 interview from Fusion magazine plus rare photos
and single picture sleeves.


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