The Flying Burrito Brother's The Gilded Palace of Sin

"In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A & M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Almost forty years later, front man Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with almost messianic reverence. Patron saint of alt-country, emblazoned with a shining cross, dead at 26. Overshadowed by Parsons, this album remains an anomaly in the country rock genre, a map in miniature of a moment in music, and warrants discussion as more than part of the Gram Parsons legacy."--Bloomsbury Publishing Cover Page 1 Title Page 9 Copyright Page 12 Contents 14 Acknowledgments 17 Prologue Envy: Sweetheart of the Rodeo 19 1. Vanity: Cosmic American Music 28 2. Sloth: Burrito Manor Fathers 40 3. Vanity: Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors 49 4. Sloth: Hot Burrito 61 5. Lust: Christine’s Tune 68 6. Avarice: Sin City 78 7. Lust: Dark End of the Street 87 8. Wrath: My Uncle Sons 100 9. Gluttony: The Train Song 111 10. Envy: Let It Bleed 122 11. Avarice: Burrito Deluxe Holy Ghosts 131 12. Wrath: Under My Thumb 140 Epilogue Gluttony: Do You Know How It Feels to Be Lonesome? 151 Bibliography 160 Footnote 166 ch01 172 ch02 179 ch03 180 ch04 187 ch05 189 ch06 196 ch07 202 ch08 209 ch09 218 ch10 223 ch11 228 ch12 232 ch13_epi 240 EBC,Converted In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released their debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin on A-M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Bob Proehl's book uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a kind of structuring device to look at an album that plays as fast and loose with its religious images as it does with its genre-borrowing Uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a structuring device to look at the album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin", that plays as fast and loose with its religious images as it does with its genre-borrowing.