Artist: Byrds
Author: Gram Parsons/Bob Buchanan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1968
On Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, their only record with coauthor Gram Parsons, who side-tracked them on a country road. Coauthor Bob Buchanan was Gram's buddy in the International Submarine Band, in 1967 the first with a countryrock album. (see also: Luxury Liner and Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome)
Covers:
Joan Baez [on David's Album, a release that triggered record companies' interest in the writer (A&M, Columbia)]
Gram Parsons [on posthumous second LP Grievous Angel, in duet with Emmylou Harris]
Gillian Welch [on second GP tribute Return Of The Grievous Angel]
Keith Richards [on a GP tribute]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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