The Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace of Sin
Open share drawer Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the cosmic country rockersâ 1969 debut, a strange, short-lived truce in the long battle between hippies and squares. One of the first times Gram Parsons played an open-mic night at the Palomino, a dive in North Hollywood that, in the late 1960s, was patronized mostly by hippie-hating country-music fans, a bar regular approached him right after his performance. âI want you to meet my three brothers,â the man said t...