Saturday Music Post - Hickory Wind

"Hickory Wind" was written by Gram Parsons during his International Submarine Band days in the early 1960s, with bandmate Bob Buchanan. Parsons later recorded it with the Byrds for Sweetheart of the Rodeo, one of the few cuts on which his lead vocal wasn't overdubbed by Roger McGuinn. He later released it with Emmyou Harris on Grievous Angel. Parsons caused a controversy during the Byrds' one and only Grand Ole Opry appearance in 1968 when MC Tompall Glazer introduced Life in Prison, but Parsons sang Hickory Wind instead. The audience was already heckling the hippies (who had actually gotten haircuts before the performance), and they booed the seeming disrespect for Glazer. Times have changed.

The clips are at The Faculty Lounge.