Gram Parsons Album: “Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons, 1965-1966”

If you're a Gram fan, you'll probably disagree heartily with the preceding review when you hear these sounds. The recordings are in fact dramatically different--less mature--than later work, but that's what makes them so interesting. It's enchanting to hear that youthful, at-times-frail-at-times-powerful voice. You just might cherish this one.

I'm glad I have these songs now, but Gram was working on his guitar skills when he made this, and I know it took a lot of work for anyone to be able to play the guitar this well and sing some songs that are worthy of that much work. The accumulation is just a bit monotonous. There have been years when I just played rhythm guitar for hundreds of songs like riding on a train, which slows down and stops at a station, but when it starts up again, it is like riding along on the same train just as before. I think the songs are good. I enjoy them. But after a few, there is not likely to be a beginning of the next one that really lights your fire.

This is a folk album not a country/rock album.I am not saying thats is not a great album because it is.The sound is really good for home recordings.Grams singing and playing is very clean and neat not something that most of us have heard before.If your a big Gram Parsons fan pick this up its quiet a find.