The Gilded Palace Of Sin

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The Gilded Palace Of Sin
Studio album by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Released	February, 1969
Genre	Country Rock
Length	37:31
Label	Edsel Records
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	The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)	Burrito Deluxe (1970)

The Gilded Palace of Sin is a country rock album by The Flying Burrito Brothers. Released in February 1969 on A&M Records, it features Gram Parsons and two musicians with whom he had played previously, The Byrds's Chris Hillman and The International Submarine Band's Chris Ethridge. "Sneeky" Pete Kleinow plays pedal steel on the album.

Parsons and Hillman wrote six of the eleven songs on Gilded. Parsons and Ethridge collaborated on two songs. Two soul music compositions, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham's "The Dark End of the Street" (entitled "Dark End of the Street" on the album) and Penn and Chips Moman's "Do Right Woman-Do Right Man" (entitled "Do Right Woman" on the album) rounded out the collection. There is a recasting of a song Parsons had done on The International Submarine Band's Safe at Home, "Do You Know How It Feels." The opening song, "Christine's Tune," has often been performed under the title "Devil in Disguise" (after part of the song's lyric). "Hot Burrito #1" (often mistitled "I'm Your Toy") and "Hot Burrito #2" are among the most famous of Parsons's compositions.

The Gilded Palace of Sin made its highest chart showing at #164 on the Billboard Top 200. It has come to be regarded as one of the most accomplished, and influential, pop music recordings of the era.

Soon after the sessions were finished, a third former Byrd, Michael Clarke, joined as permanent drummer. The newly augmented group went into the studio with bluegrass music guitarist Clarence White (yet another Byrd), pianist Leon Russell and producers Larry Williamson and Johnny Guitar Watson to record Parsons's tribute to his grandmother, "The Train Song". After that single's failure, bassist Ethridge turned in his pink slip, lead guitarist Bernie Leadon was hired and Hillman moved from guitar back to bass. This group would record the Burritos's second LP, Burrito Deluxe.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 192 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [1]

[edit] Track listing

1. "Christine's Tune" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)
2. "Sin City" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)
3. "Do Right Woman" (C. Moman-D. Penn)
4. "Dark End of the Street" (C. Moman-D. Penn)
5. "Wheels" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)
6. "My Uncle" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)
7. "Juanita" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)
8. "Hot Burrito #1" (G. Parsons-C. Ethridge)
9. "Hot Burrito #2" (G. Parsons-C. Ethridge)
10. "Do You Know How It Feels" (G. Parsons-B. Goldberg)
11. "Hippie Boy" (G. Parsons-C. Hillman)

[edit] Group members and other participants

• Gram Parsons - rhythm guitar, piano, organ, lead and harmony vocal
• Chris Hillman - rhythm guitar, mandolin, lead and harmony vocal
• Chris Ethridge - bass, piano
• "Sneeky" Pete Kleinow - pedal steel
• with
• Jon Corneal - drums (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7)
• Popeye Phillips - drums (tracks 8, 9 and 11)
• Eddie Hoh - drums (tracks 2 and 10)
• Sam Goldstein - drums (track 6)
• David Crosby - harmony vocal on "Do Right Woman"
• Miss Pamela - harmony vocal on "Hippie Boy"
• Henry Lewy and Larry Marks - producers