Burrito Deluxe
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| Studio album by The Flying Burrito Brothers | |||||
| Released | April 1970 | ||||
| Genre | Country rock | ||||
| Length | 33:08 | ||||
| Label | A&M | ||||
| Producer | Jim Dickson, Henry Lewy | ||||
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| Robert Christgau | B+ |
Burrito Deluxe is the second album by the country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers, released in May 1970 on A&M Records, catalogue 4258. It is the last to feature Gram Parsons prior to his dismissal from the group. It contains the first issued version of the song "Wild Horses," released almost a year before its appearance on Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones.
After the release of the group's debut album, ex-Byrd Michael Clarke was hired as the band's full-time drummer — he had recently been performing drumming duties for another band led by another ex-Byrd, Dillard and Clark. In the fall of 1969 bassist Chris Ethridge left out of frustration at the band's lack of success, and in his place the Burritos snagged another member of the disintegrating Dillard and Clark unit, guitarist Bernie Leadon.Chris Hillman then moved over to his old role of bass, making the new Burritos lineup for this their second album Parsons, Hillman, and Pete Kleinow along with Leadon and Clarke. Unfortunately, no one had many new songs to contribute, with Leadon explaining to Parsons biographer David Meyer in 2007, "We started getting together - Gram, Chris, and I - at the A&M lot and trying to write songs. We spent three or four months doing this. It was like pulling teeth. We knew the mechanics of writing music, but the stuff that we did were not Gram's best songs." Hillman concurred to Meyer, "After the brief initial burst Gram and I couldn't seem to hook up again. Burrito Deluxe was recorded without any of the feeling and the intensity of the first album."
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