1964 - 1972 Gram Parsons Under Your Spell Again (155min) Live and Studio Various Locations Disc 1 - 77.41 The Legends - 1964: 1 Rip It Up 2.41 International Submarine Band - 1967: 2 Sum Up Broke 2.16 3 One Day Week 2.47 The Byrds - London 68-June-7 (NOT the final show w/ the Byrds): 4 Hickory Wind 4.37 5 Sing Me Back Home 3.13 6 The Christian Life 2.39 7 Under Your Spell Again 2.36 8 You Don't Miss Your Water 3.40 9 Eight Miles High 4.42 10 Space Odyssey 4.13 11 Tribal Gathering 1.26 The Flying Burrito Brothers - Seattle Pop Festival 1969: 12 Sin City 4.01 13 Take A Message To Mary 3.29 14 She Thinks I Still Care 3.10 15 Christine's Tune 3.21 16 Sweet Dreams Baby 2.52 17 Wake Up Little Susie 2.44 The Flying Burrito Brothers - 69-June-6 Palomino Club - N Hollywood, CA: 18 Buckaroo 2.35 19 Another Place, Another Time 3.51 20 High On A Hilltop 3.53 21 She Once Lived Here 4.00 22 Hot Burrito #1 3.58 23 Everyone Loves A Winner 4.47 Disc 2 - 77.44 Gram Parsons - Solo 1964: 1 Race With The Devil 3.41 Gram Parsons - GP Demo's 1972: 2 How Much I Lied 3.05 3 The New Soft Shoe 3.43 4 Still Feeling Blue 3.00 5 A Song For You 5.58 6 Big Mouth Blues 3.29 7 Kiss The Children 3.41 Gram Parsons - 73-Mar-18 Radio Studio Session (WBCN Boston): 8 Fallen Angels (band talking) 3.15 9 Widow Maker 3.00 10 Love Hurts 5.01 11 Sin City 6.14 The Flying Burrito Brothers - 69-Apr-6 Avalon Ballroom, SF: 12 You're Still On My Mind 2.33 The Flying Burrito Brothers - 69-June-6 Palomino Club, N Hollywood: 13 Undo The Right > 1.38 Somebody's Back In Town 3.15 14 Lucille 2.35 15 I Threw Away The Rose 4.13 16 Train Song 3.24 Fallen Angels - 73-Feb-23 Liberty Hall - Houston, TX: 17 Six Days On The Road 3.11 18 Close Up The Honky Tonks 2.56 Fallen Angels - 1973 19 We'll Sweep Out The Ashes 3.39 Studio - Alternate Mixes (sound very similar to the LP versions): 20 Return Of The Grievous Angel 3.54 21 Hearts On Fire 3.48 The below is a great review from AMG (All Music Guide) by Mark Deming: AMG REVIEW: Despite wildly inconsistent sound quality, and several performances of interest only to the hardest of hardcore fans, this two-disc bootleg is one of the few truly comprehensive portraits of the career of Gram Parsons, offering rare and often fascinating recordings from every stage of his career. The set opens with a rough, splicey, but historically priceless tape of Parsons and his teenage band the Legends rocking out on Little Richard's "Rip It Up"; whoever is playing guitar offers up a killer solo, indicating Parsons had already learned the importance of surrounding himself with gifted musicians. Next up is the International Submarine Band's rare 1967 single on Columbia; this was before the group dove head-first into country, and the excellent A-side, "Sum Up Broke," sounds like a cross between 5D-era Byrds and early Moby Grape. The flip, "One Day Week," rocks pretty hard while suggesting Parsons' country & western-tinged melodic sense was just about to emerge. These cuts are followed by eight songs from a muddy audience tape of Parsons performing with the Byrds in London in 1968 (despite what the liner notes say, this wasn't Parsons' last show with the band, although it was close to the end of the line); you're probably better off listening to Sweetheart Of The Rodeo for most of this segment, though the final three songs, with Parsons on organ, give a much clearer picture of what his role in the band was originally intended to be. Next up is a six-song set with the Flying Burrito Brothers from 1969's Seattle Pop Festival; the sound is OK (it sounds hi-fi compared to the Byrds cuts that precede it), while the performance is focused on covers, the highlight being a great rocked-up version of Roy Orbison's "Sweet Dreams Baby." Disc one closes out with the Burritos playing for a less than attentive audience at Hollywood's home of country music, the Palomino Club; it must have been their appearance that put off the crowd, because the band sounds fine and the recording is clear and well-balanced, if a bit boomy. Disc two leads off with a solo recording from Parsons' tenure with the Shilos; this is Parson in strict folky mode, and it's an adequate substitute for unreleased recordings from that group. The next six tunes are the set's highlight; 1972 acoustic demos of songs that would later appear on G.P., and if the audio is only a few steps up from "boom box in someone's living room," the performances are warm, heartfelt, and utterly priceless, especially on "How Much I Lied" and "A Song for You." Next, Parsons, Emmylou Harris, and N.D. Smart II stop by a Boston radio station to plug both G.P. and an upcoming local gig while Parsons and Emmylou swap lovely harmonies on two covers and Smart cracks some funny jokes; the opening chat is quite amusing as Parsons discusses his problems with record companies and life on the road. After a detour back to the Burritos era, with cuts from concerts in San Francisco (a place Parsons calls "the jivest town in the world" in a Crawdaddy interview reprinted in the liner notes) and North Hollywood (another night from the same stand at the Palomino), you're treated to some cuts from a Houston, TX, date on Parsons' final tour with the Fallen Angels that sound tighter a good bit more energetic than the set preserved on the Live 1973 album (especially "Six Days on the Road"), though the sound quality is only fair. And finally, the set closes out with two alternate mixes of cuts from Grievous Angel rescued from lightly noisy but still listenable discs; neither is strikingly different, but they're still fine to hear. The set's packaging is splendid by bootleg standards, with a handful of rare photos of Parsons on stage with his various bands in the accompanying booklet and a handsomely printed gatefold LP-style folder (with equally attractive printed inner sleeves). Despite the breadth of Parsons' career and his continuing influence, no one has seen fit to compile a box set of his best material, or even release a reasonably complete single-disc sampler in the United States ( Rhino Records, are you listening?), so for fans, Under Your Spell Again is especially valuable; it not only preserves a number of worthy performances from country-rock's single most important artist, but offers a better perspective on the many facets of his career than any authorized set has done to date. Mark Deming Gram Parsons Under Your Spell Again Colosseum Records Disc 1 1. Rip It Up (The Legends, 1964) 2. Sum Up Broke (International Submarine Band Columbia 45, 1967) 3. One Day Week (International Submarine Band Columbia 45, 1967) 4. Hickory Wind (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 5. Sing Me Back Home (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 6. The Christian Life (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 7. Under Your Spell Again (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 8. You Don't Miss Your Water (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 9. Eight Miles High (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 10. Space Odyssey (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 11. Tribal Gathering (Roundhouse, London 7/6/68 final show w/ The Byrds) 12, Sin City (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 13. Take a Message To Mary (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 14. She Thinks I Still Care (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 15. Christine's Tune (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 16. Sweet Dream Baby (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 17. Wake Up Little Susie (Flying Burrito Brothers, Seattle Pop Festival 1969) 18. Buckaroo (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 19. Another Place, Another Time (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 20. High on a Hilltop (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 21. She Once Lived Here (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 22. Hot Burrito #1 (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 23. Everyone Loves a Winner (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) Disc 2 1. Race With the Wind (Gram Parsons 1964) 2. How Much I Lied (GP sessions demos 1972) 3. The New Soft Shoe (GP sessions demos 1972) 4. Still Felling Blue (GP sessions demos 1972) 5. A Song For You (GP sessions demos 1972) 6. Big Mouth Blues (GP sessions demos 1972) 7. Kiss the Children (GP sessions demos 1972) 8. Fallen Angels (GP sessions demos 1972) 9. Windowmaker (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73) 10. Love Hurts (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73) 11. Sin City (Fallen Angels, WBCN Boston 3/18/73) 12. You're Still On My Mind (Flying Burrito Brothers, Avalon Ballroom, S.F. 4/6/69) 13. Undo the Right>Somebody's Back In Town (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 14. Lucille (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 15. I Threw Away the Rose (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 16. Train Song (Flying Burrito Brothers, Palomino Club, N. Hollywood, 6/6/69) 17. Six Days On the Road (Fallen Angels, Liberty Hall, Houston 2/23/73) 18. Close Up the Honky Tonks (Fallen Angels, Liberty Hall, Houston 2/23/73) 19. We'll Sweep Out the Ashes In the Morning (Fallen Angels, 1973 tour) 20. Return of the Grevious Angel (Alternate Studio Versions, 1973) 21. Hearts On Fire (Alternate Studio Versions, 1973)