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'... a crucial influence on where American rock went in the '70s.' --UNCUT, January 2009
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Country-rock renegades, outlaws, desperados in sequined Nudie suits on the lam from the commercial music machine with a dream to pull rock music back from the psychedelic abyss and return it to its pure and simple country roots, The Flying Burrito Brothers were avatars of a whole new genre that continues to resonate today. Widely regarded as the original country-rock band, you can hear their influence in the entire mainstream Southern California mid 70s country-rock of artists like the Eagles, J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, as well as the current crop of Nashville country-pop including Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley and the alternative No Depression/ alt.country/roots rock/Americana music underground.In the brief four-year span of the original group, The Flying Burrito Brothers have transcended cult status to earn universal respect and admiration. "Hot Burritos" is the colourfully detailed, deeply insightful, hard-hitting and personal insider account of one of contemporary music's most beloved, respected, innovative and daring maverick bands as told to writer John Einarson by founding Burrito Brother Chris Hillman and other group members and associates.Previously guarded about the group's colourful history, Hillman shatters the myths surrounding the legendary band, taking readers for the first time inside the creative Parsons-Hillman partnership, their notoriously extravagant 1969 train trip tour, country-rock bastions like the Troubadour and Palomino clubs, the doomed Altamont Festival, Festival Express, the Rolling Stones inner circle, Parsons' overindulgence and ultimate dismissal, discovering Emmylou Harris, bringing bluegrass-flavoured country rock to ecstatic college crowds, and the legacy the group left behind. Hillman's personal insights into enigmatic icon and friend Gram Parsons offer an intimate portrait of the doomed cult hero who, since his tragic death at age 26, has received an inordinate amount of credit for giving birth to country rock.
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This review is from: Hot Burritos: Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, and the Flying Burrito Brothers: The True Story of "Flying Burrito Brothers" (Genuine Jawbone Books): The True Story of "Flying Burrito Brothers" (Paperback)
This book is timely, and to those who have an objective understanding of the subject matter, a searching analysis of the facts taken from many sources and key participants over the accumulated mythology that has accrued since September 1973.
As a fan of the band and the key players since 1972,( when nobody was very much bothered in a defunct band) it is interesting how the lack of objectivity became manifest, and this current work can be seen by some as a "character assassination". I looked forward to the 1974 release of the A&M compilation "Close up the Honky Tonks" which I bought on import. At that time, Nick Kent in the NME reviewed the album and described the partnership of Parsons and Hillman as "A consummation of the gods". He quantified the elements of what he called "Rock, spark and drive" and suggested that people should get listening to the Burritos. At that time, critics would describe Chris Hillman - using the word "thaumaturge" - his involvement in any project facilitating wonders. Parsons was seen more as a "Mad Professor" creating a mixture of ingredients that might just blow up in you face- or be the source of some strange alchemy, but "his race was run"- or so it appeared. Anyhow, in 1976 there was a major two page feature in the NME under the headline "So you want to be a Cosmic Cowboy" ( where have we heard a similar heading before?) which began to question the nascent Parsons mythology which was just beginning to build up a head of steam. The writer (in my eyes) made the heretical statement that Parsons couldn't sing- he couldn't hold a note, and if you wanted "ground-breaking" country music, then Waylon Jennings and his album "Honky Tonk Heroes" was the way to go. Anyway, this was too much for me, but shortly afterwards, A&M released "Sleepless Nights" most of the recently released stuff from "Close up the Honky Tonks"-plus the Reprise out takes, and some very patchy covers of rockers and country classics- with Parsons in an obvious state of disarray, and singing in some "distress". Perhaps, the critic was on to something? Well, this book takes us through the history of those short years, and the reader can decide on conspiracy to undermine, or just simple forensic analysis. The 1974 compilation had this to say about Chris Hillman. "..the cornerstone and an exemplary musician who took charge when it needed to be taken...Chris knows how to hang in there and do whatever has to be done very well....Ironically enough, when the time came to step out, he fell in with Stephen Stills and found himself just out of the spotlight one last time, pulling a disparate situation together while someone else got the billing". The liner notes are favourable to Gram although the telling sentence "At times,he couldn't seem to get his mind and body going in the same direction for long enough to get something really big together" does rather nail the underlying problem which Chris Hillman has described quite simply as a lack of discipline, and a dereliction of the essential commitment to others- band mates, record companies, the audience etc. Mind you, it's been timeless matter across the years, the destructive nature of large inheritance in the hands of the young. A&M did not need to be objective- they had invested in the band, but I can't help feel that Jim Bickhart's liner notes from 1974 identified all the salient points long before it became a matter of faith or passion.
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This review is from: Hot Burritos: Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, and the Flying Burrito Brothers: The True Story of "Flying Burrito Brothers" (Genuine Jawbone Books): The True Story of "Flying Burrito Brothers" (Paperback)
For anyone interested in the Burritos / Byrds legacy, this is a great book. Fascinating and informative on the one hand due to the quality of the source material, it is in parts, laugh-out-loud funny on the other, as the first generation Burritos resemble a prototype Spinal Tap. Easy to see why Hillman's had a chip on both shoulders for the last 40 years, particularly with re-hashed material now billed as "Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers". Most Burrito fans fall into one of two camps, either Hillman or Parsons, and I should make it clear that this will appeal more to the former. It could just as easily be titled "Chris has the last laugh"...
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The assasination of Gram Parsons,
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John Eirnarson is a name with which I'm familiar as he wrote a groundbreaking biography on Byrds founder Gene Clark. That book seemed to be very even in its analysis of the books subject. Whilst Gram Parsons isn't intended to be the main subject of this book he , somewhat ironically given the books slant, ends up once more stealing the limelight even if that is bathed in negativity.
I have long admired Chris Hillmans abilty as a songwriter and musician and it is a shame that he has allowed the main author to steer this work into a lets have a pop at Parsons tomb. I dont doubt a lot of what is said about Gram is true and he was flawed in many ways but as Bernie Leadon lets slip at some point there was an element of genius about Gram which others did not have , though they may have been better musicians. That said I unreservedly enjoyed this book and any afficinado of country rock will not feel theyve wasted their money. The bands story is well told and clearly illustrates what a different era that was. These days the Burrito Brothers would have lost any recording contract before the ink was dry, but back then record companys were prepared to back mavericks and seemed to actually care about music rather than bucks.By doing so they gave the Burritos a career and all these years later the reason for this book. It is over the top in its criticism of GP and thats why i wont give it 5 stars but it doesn't stop it being an enjoyable read.
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