Saturday August 13, 2022 “Six Days on the Road” Flying Burrito Brothers
I guess it may seem both foolish and obvious but here we are with our final (sixth) road song and it turns out to be “Six Days on the Road”.
"Six Days On The Road" may just be one of the most-covered songs in country music. Johnny Rivers' cover in 1974, Steve Earle's cover in 1988, which was used in the film Planes, Trains and Automobiles, then Sawyer Brown's cover in 1997 and then we have today’s cover by the Flying Burrito Brothers.
The Flying Burrito Brothers helped forge the connection between rock and country, and with their 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, they virtually invented the blueprint for country-rock. Originally, the Flying Burrito Brothers were Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman and a group of Los Angeles musicians who gathered together to jam. The band's name came when they were forming their own band after leaving the Byrds.
Parsons would fly from the Burrito Brothers and embark on a solo career, become a cult figure that never sold many records but influenced countless fellow musicians, hang out with the Rolling Stones and while celebrating the release of his second solo album Grievous Angel he would overdose and die at the coincidental age of almost 27.
Stay safe and well…and since we’re out trucking today with the Flying Burrito Brothers get your CB radios ready…breaker, breaker.