GP (album)

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GP
Studio album by Gram Parsons
Released	January 1973
Recorded	September-October, 1972, Wally Heider Studio 4
Genre	Country-rock
Length	38:26
Label	Reprise Records
Producer	Parsons, Ric Grech
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Gram Parsons chronology
GP (1973) Grievous Angel (1974)

GP was the first solo album by Gram Parsons, former member of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. It was originally released in a gatefold sleeve in 1973 (see 1973 in music).

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Gram Parsons unless otherwise indicated.

Side One

1. "Still Feeling Blue" – 2:40
2. "We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning" (Joyce Allsup) – 3:13
3. "A Song for You" – 4:58
4. "Streets of Baltimore" (Tompall Glaser, Harlan Howard) – 2:53
5. "She" (Parsons, Chris Ethridge) – 4:59

Side Two

1. "That's All It Took" (Darrell Edwards, Charlotte Grier, George Jones) – 3:38
2. "The New Soft Shoe" – 3:54
3. "Kiss the Children" – 2:57
4. "Cry One More Time" (Peter Wolf, Seth Justman) – 3:38
5. "How Much I've Lied" (Parsons, David Rifkin) – 2:29
6. "Big Mouth Blues" – 3:52

[edit] Personnel

• Gram Parsons – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Emmylou Harris – vocals
• Barry Tashian – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Ric Grech – bass guitar
• John Conrad – bass
• Ronnie Tutt – drums
• John Guerin – drums
• Sam Goldstein – drums
• Glen D. Hardin – piano, organ, bandleader
• James Burton – electric guitar, dobro
• Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
• Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar
• Byron Berline – fiddle
• Alan Munde – banjo on "Still Feeling Blue"
• Ron Hicklin, Tom Bahler, Mitch Gordon, Lewis Morford – backing vocals on "Kiss the Children"
• Hal Battiste – baritone saxophone on "Cry One More Time"