Gram Parsons: Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels (Rhino)

EXCEPT FOR A brief period in the early '80s, when I now believe I was trying so hard I put a clothespin over my crap detector, I never really "got" Gram Parsons as a country artist. And as a country-rock harbinger, he definitely institutionalized some of the worst attributes of bands that followed in his wake and were accused of betraying him with those very traits.