Flying Burrito Brothers

For The Sake of The Song: The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City”

August 17, 2026 Tim Martin 2

Co-written by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman for The Flying Burrito Brothers’ 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, Sin City features one of the best lines in the whole of popular music. “On the […]

The Long Ryders in Copenhagen - May 2023

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Tim Martin

October 23, 2025 Tim Martin 2

My colleague Paul Kerr asked the key question in his entry for the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time. What exactly is a great song? I took what might be seen as the coward’s way […]

The Burrito Brothers “Together”

August 9, 2023 Martin Johnson 4

We may not be in the Gilded Palace of Sin but it is country rock with a ‘70s vibe. This is potentially a difficult album to review objectively because of the simple fact that ‘Together’ is […]

Paperback Riders: David N Meyer “Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music”

September 30, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A quick look around Good Reads finds twelve biographies that are either directly about Parsons, or about the bands he was part of. So, if we are picking one source to learn about Gram Parsons why […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Flying Burrito Brothers “The Gilded Palace of Sin”

November 3, 2021 Rich Orpin 4

It’s been a couple of months since Jim Finnie’s wonderful article on ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’, in which he acknowledges a debt to Martin Johnson’s excellent piece on ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’. What better excuse than […]