Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music Various Artists SKU: NUM58LP Barcode: 825764105811 29.00 £29.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Numero Group Released Date: 28th April 2016 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info As progenitor and contemptuous poster boy for the music that came to be Cosmic American, Gram Parsons found himself mired in a recording career spent mostly in scouting the perimeters of chart success. “He hated country-rock,” Parsons collaborator Emmylou Harris would later reflect. “He thought that bands like the Eagles were pretty much missing the point.” 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, each responding by committing their own private readings to tape before for day one of the 1970s. Parsons himself might’ve disdained them, had he even been aware of such minor ripples, shimmering at the edges of his desert oasis. But these were true believers all the same, given over fully to his roots music concept, each filling vinyl grooves with non-rock instrumentation like fiddle, banjo, and pedal steel guitar, the last undoubtedly Cosmic American Music’s most distinguishing stringed signifier. Only too predictably, big labels did the grunt work of confining and defining the movement, as ABC, United Artists, RCA, and more played catch-up with Asylum’s raptor rock juggernaut, via backwoods crossover also-rans with names like Gladstone, American Flyer, and Silverado. Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became “the dominant American rock style of the 1970s,” as Peter Doggett’s comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre’s real Wild West—America’s one-off private press label substructure. Artist Various Artists Genre Americana / Country Label Numero Group Buying Options 180g 2LP Format 180g , 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Travelin' - Jimmy Carter and Dallas County Green 2. And I Didn't Want You - Mistress Mary 3. You Can't Make It Alone - Plain Jane 4. Lily of the Valley - Dan Pavlides 5. I Saw Her Cry - Angel Oak 6. Sleep a Million Years - Kathy Heidiman 7. Me Lovin' You - Deerfield 8. To See Her Smile - Arrogance 9. Not Down This Low - Jeff Cowell 10. Baby's Back - Kenny Knight 11. Lonesome City - The Black Canyon Gang 12. Mountain Roads - Allan Wachs 13. Lonely Entertainer - Mike and Pam Martin 14. Buffalo Skinners - Bill Madison 15. All Cried Out - White Cloud 16. Gentle One - Ethel-Ann Powell 17. I Knew Her Well - Sandy Harless 18. The Spirit of the Golden Juice - F.J. McMahon 19. 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