Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons 1965-1966＜Sky Blue Vinyl＞

溢れる天性の才能を一瞬の輝きに込め、26才で天に召された天才。アメリカン・ロック/カントリー・ロックのレジェンド、グラム・パーソンズ。2000年にリリースされた未発表デモ音源『ANOTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE』が、カラーヴァイナル・リプレス!
1965年3月から1966年4月にかけて、フロリダ州ウィンター・ヘイブンの友人ジム・カールトンの自宅でレコーディングされたデモ。貴重なフォトと、ライター、スタンリー・ブースによるエッセイも収録されています。

The 18 previously unreleased, solo acoustic performances on this collection were recorded between March 1965 and December 1966. These show Parsons not as a country singer, rock singer, or even folk-rock singer, but very much as a mid-'60s folkie, in the mold of so many artists to be heard in the Greenwich Village scene. There's no straight country music in his repertoire, comprised largely of covers of songs by then-contemporary writers such as Buffy Sainte-Marie ("Codine"), Tim Hardin, Tom Paxton, and Fred Neil, along with high-caliber compositions that would be popularized by rock groups (Billy Wheeler's "High Flyin' Bird" and Hamilton Camp's "Pride of Man"). There are also five Parsons originals, a few not available elsewhere, and others recorded at other points either by himself ("Brass Buttons" and "Zah's Blues") or different performers ("November Nights," placed on an obscure single by Peter Fonda). A bit of R&B pokes out in his covers of "Searchin'" and "Candy Man." This disc is definitely of historical interest, if only to demonstrate that Parsons' roots were certainly not country-soaked, but largely indebted to '60s folk as well. As music, it's very average (though certainly not bad) mid-'60s folk, of the kind you might hear by numerous coffeehouse support acts. He sings best on the jazzy "Zah's Blues," where he seems to reach further into himself than he does on most of the other material here. ~ Richie Unterberger