The Flying Burritto Brothers -- The Gilded Palace of Sin C/D

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Anyone know who the brunette woman on the front and back cover is? The internet's not turning up anything.

clemenza, Monday, 10 September 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link

from Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Graham Parsons

To get photographs for the cover of their first album. Gilded Palace of Sin, A&M art director Tom Wilkes took the Burritos to Pearblossom. To back up Mother Nature, Tom and photographer Barry Feinstein also hired two models, dressed and made up to look like hookers. The models, a miniskirted brunette and a blonde in a knit cap and wine-colored pantsuit, posed like the mannequins they were hired to be; they allowed themselves to be embraced and held aloft by various Burritos.

from Hot Burritos: the true story of the Flying Burrito Brothers

Two female models, Suzanne and Bridget, pose provocatively in the shed's open doorway.

I can't find anything more specific than that.

crütis what we aim for (unregistered), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks--can't find last names. She's stunning in the film footage from that shoot.

clemenza, Monday, 10 September 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

this is such a great record. on one level it's a pretty exhaustive travestying of country music cliches. on the other hand it sustains such a provocative ambivalence about the country-music zeitgeist in sound and meaning. it's also just really musically inventive and full of hooks. i never fail to be astonished by how /young/ parsons and hillman were when they made this really sophisticated and subtle record: 22 and 44, respectively.

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link

btw what is currently considered the best-sounding issue of this album? i have a beat-up original copy i play for kicks sometimes, and i also have this two-fer: http://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Palace-Sin-Burrito-Deluxe/dp/B000024R2P/

but i see that there are a few more recently CD and vinyl issues, including a 2010 japanese CD and a 2007 Four Men with Beards LP (which given 4MwB's track record I'm assuming is trash)

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link

this is like a six-star album for me

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link

in other news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchWI3sLUQo

I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link

i know, it's not on this album, but i wasn't about to start a thread for their 2nd album

I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link


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