“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

_**Gram Parsons with the Country Rock Package - Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1973**_ Fine, we’ll listen to some more Emmylou Harris — this time way back in time with Gram Parsons. But not just Gram Parsons! After the duo went on their fairly well-documented Fallen Angels tour in early 1973, they went on a brief jaunt with something apparently called the Country Rock Package. As unimaginative and kinda unpleasant as that moniker may be, the lineup more than made up for it. The CRP included a murderer’s row of players, including Clarence White, Roland White, Eric White, Gene Parsons, Chris Ethridge, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Roger Bush. I guess that’s what you call a Country Rock Package?! As far as I can tell, a very hazy audience tape of the ensemble at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA, is the only extant audio evidence of the tour. Too bad, because even though the sound is lo-fi, the performance is high quality, with Gram and Emmylou harmonizing sweetly through a setlist that spans the Byrds, the Burritos and the solo years. Clarence and Sneaky Pete sound awesome together, whether trading gorgeous licks on “Hickory Wind” or bringing “Hot Burrito #2” to a soaring psych-ed out close. Alas, both Clarence and Gram wouldn’t make it out of 1973 alive; the guitarist was tragically killed by a drunk driver in July, and Gram, of course, would OD in a Joshua Tree hotel room a couple months later. Both major losses for music, both major losses for the universe.