Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel (E/VG+) – LP, AU 1974

Grievous Angel is an LP by Gram Parsons from 1974 released on the Reprise Records label.

About this album

Grievous Angel is Gram Parsons’ essential country-rock statement, completing the vision he had been shaping across his short solo career. Released in 1974 and issued after his death, the album blends honky-tonk feeling, California ease and country’s plainspoken sorrow into something both intimate and influential. With Emmylou Harris on harmonies, Parsons turns songs such as Return of the Grievous Angel and In My Hour of Darkness into a moving farewell, while his version of Love Hurts became one of the record’s most enduring moments. Widely regarded as a cornerstone of the country-rock movement, it helped define the genre’s emotional and stylistic range.

Genre: Country