Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons

Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons is a compilation released in 2000 of early recordings by Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...

. It features all previously unreleased recordings. The singing style and musical arrangements are much different from Parsons's subsequent, more country-influenced music.

Track listing

"Codine" (Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

) – 5:37
"Wheel of Fortune" (Gram Parsons) – 2:29
"Another Side of This Life" (Fred Neil
Fred Neil
Fred Neil was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer, and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly "Everybody's Talkin'", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after being...

) – 2:40
"High Flyin' Bird" (Billy Edd Wheeler
Billy Edd Wheeler
Billy Edward "Edd" Wheeler is an American songwriter, performer, writer and visual artist. He has written songs performed by over 90 different artists including Judy Collins, Jefferson Airplane, Bobby Darin, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Kenny Rogers, Hazel Dickens, and Elvis Presley...

) – 3:49
"November Nights" (Parsons) – 3:38
"Zah's Blues" (Parsons) – 4:02
"Reputation" (Tim Hardin
Tim Hardin
James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...

) – 3:09
"That's the Bag I'm In" (Fred Neil) – 3:14
"Willie Jean" (Traditional) – 4:08
"They Still Go Down" (Dick Weissman) – 2:26
"Pride of Man" (Hamilton Camp
Hamilton Camp
Hamilton Camp was an English-American singer, songwriter, actor and voice actor.-Early life:Camp was born in London, England, and was evacuated during World War II to the United States as a child with his mother and sister. He became a child actor in films and onstage...

) – 2:45
"The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...

) – 3:44
"Hey Nellie Nellie" (David Fromer, Jonathan Fromer, Elbert Robinson) – 3:04
"She's the Woman I Love/Good Time Music" (Danny Adams, Sam Moffitt) – 4:58
"Brass Buttons" (Parsons) – 2:25
"I Just Can't Take It Anymore" (Parsons) – 3:29
"Searchin'" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:32
"Candy Man" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 3:17

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