Wayfaring Strangers

Cosmic American Music

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‘Gram Parsons had been orbiting the idea of Cosmic American Music for some time. In ‘68, he’d parted ways with the Byrds and was looking to take air with a new project. “It’s basically a Southern soul group playing country and gospel-oriented music with a steel guitar” he told Melody Maker, on the subject of The Flying Burrito Brothers. So it was that when A&M’s Burrito Brothers debut The Gilded Palace of Sin made it to shelves in February of 1969, early adherents to the Cosmic American gospel were already echoing its message from areas flanking Gram Parsons’ Southern California hills and canyons. There was F.J. McMahon in coastal Santa Barbara, Mistress Mary further inland in Hacienda Heights, and Plain Jane of Albuquerque, New Mexico…’

• Travelin' - Jimmy Carter and Dallas County Green
• And I Didn't Want You - Mistress Mary
• You Can't Make It Alone - Plain Jane
• Lily of the Valley - Dan Pavlides
• I Saw Her Cry - Angel Oak
• Sleep a Million Years - Kathy Heidiman
• Me Lovin' You - Deerfield
• To See Her Smile - Arrogance
• Not Down This Low - Jeff Cowell
• Baby's Back - Kenny Knight
• Lonesome City - The Black Canyon Gang
• Mountain Roads - Allan Wachs
• Lonely Entertainer - Mike and Pam Martin
• Buffalo Skinners - Bill Madison
• All Cried Out - White Cloud
• Gentle One - Ethel-Ann Powell
• I Knew Her Well - Sandy Harless
• The Spirit of the Golden Juice - F.J. McMahon
• Alabama Railroad Town - Doug Firebaugh