Rolling Stone Flashback: The Flying Burrito Brothers Cut ‘Wild Horses’ Before the Rolling Stones
On the anniversary of
Sticky Fingers, hear Gram Parsons sing the dreamy country track, which resulted from his friendship with Keith Richards
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Life. “What we could have done if we’d known each other earlier.”
It’s easy to discern the influence Parsons had on Richards, who had a cosmic country streak with 1968’s
Sweetheart of the Radio with the Byrds and 1969’s
The Gilded Place of Sin with the Flying Burrito Brothers. His death at the age of 26 only further cemented his legacy as a country-rock pioneer, and Richards has long cited him as having an effect on the Rolling Stones.