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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 to Parsons, who was wearing his favorite pair of satin bell-bottoms and whose chestnut hair was longer than pretty much anyone elseâs in the place. âWe were gonna kick your ass,â the man continued, âbut you can sing real good, so weâll buy you a beer instead.â