HICKORY WIND

Created on 27/01/2003
Latest update on 10/01/2024

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:

1969:

Joan Baez [on David's Album, a release that triggered record companies' interest in the writer (A&M, Columbia)]

1973:

Gram Parsons [on posthumous second lp Grievous Angel, in duet with Emmylou Harris]

1979:

Emmylou Harris

1982:

Chris Hillman

1987:

Seldom Scene

1993:

Bob Mould & Vic Chesnutt

1996:

BR5-49

1999:

Gillian Welch [on second GP tribute Return Of The Grievous Angel]

2004:

Grant Lee Phillips

2004:

Keith Richards [on a GP tribute]

2006:

Sally Spring

2016:

Buddy Miller & Lucinda Williams

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