The Gilded Palace Of Sin

This album has been added to 2 private lists and 2 public lists:

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  1969

  James

  Gram Parsons and company merge country music and rock music so naturally that it becomes hard to remember how unusual this once sounded. “Sin City,” “Christine’s Tune,” and “Hot Burrito #1” mix heartbreak, cosmic imagery, and Bakersfield-style twang into something simultaneously worn-out and visionary. Sneaky Pete Kleinow’s pedal steel gives the album its strange psychedelic shimmer. The record helped invent country-rock, but it’s too emotionally bruised and eccentric to fit neatly into genre history. Its sadness feels loose and lived-in rather than polished.

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  2024-06

  vertino

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