The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones)

[imacake12]

i like susan boyle's version better :P but this is OK 2

[TheKapnight]

Nice, they say graham and keith were friends a lot of stones songs sound like Parsons, Honky Tonk Woman, maybe a little Parsons, who cares great songs,

[samvonshmam]

Jaggar says Gram and Keith wrote the melody and came up with the phrase "wild horses" -but it sounds to me like Gram wrote most of this one -just doesn't sound like something Jaggar would come up with...the Burritos released it on Burrito Deluxe a year before the Stones' Sticky Fingers came out too...

[brandonlace]

@samvonshmam the stones had recorded it first, they just couldn`t release it due to troubles with their record company. Though I agree parsons probably helped keith write it, though I doubt he really cared about whether or not he got credit.

[ethananderson3]

grams music gives me a permanent boner

[laffnwolf]

I love this tune. Gram, Stones, Sundays, Old And In The Way. Each different, each great in it's own way.

[gonzosgroove]

I have my freedom, but I don't have much time. It's spooky how those words echo through the years.

[XPS9100Boy]

Leon's solo is the icing on this treat.

[Roland0554]

One of the very few songs that I like better than the Stones version.

[fasterthanbolt]

Gram's voice is uncomparable to Mick's voice. Mick is great, but would get lost into Gram's soul.

[chiggerspit]

...very nice audio e.q. & notes - thank you.

[ManicPoetRyRy]

Only Reason I am proud to be from Winter Haven FL

[cyberhippiechick]

Everyone has stated the obvious, jeez can you even begin to imagine where he could've gone. K, my braughs and sisters and I have stolen a similar idea but I say we all pass a plate at the end of the party. That's immortality!

[daniel777891]

yes gram parson does sing thi better then mick jagger . you can understand what he s saying

[TheBigDiehl93]

Read "Twenty Thousand Roads" and then listen to this song and I guarantee you will cry...

[visceralguy]

yeah buddy

[52joan]

i agree! and ifn I fry in hell..it'll be with the BEST company....

[CantBeShook]

@mbgrayback Mick and Keith wrote this song and recorded this song before Gram recorded it, then they let Gram cover it for the FBB album and because of delays to Sticky Fingers, the FBB version was released first.

[MattMuerto]

My dad and Mom used to listen to this back in the day when they would go to the beach as kids in high school. They picked up some Graham Pasons and Emmy lou albums when i was about 13 ( now 25). I have loved parsons voice on this track way more than any other song out there. Thank you for posting this, I love this song

[lorons]

30000 views is a crime. This should be well over a million!

[TheKalen486]

@lorons WELL WITH THIS GENERATION NUFF SAID

[rubiovideos]

i like it cause they made it sound country

[MichaelHansenFUN]

i think gram released this version before the stones did

[CantBeShook]

@MichaelHansenFUN Yep, a year before but the Stones recorded it months before he did.

[TheKalen486]

@MichaelHansenFUN this is gram or another burrito member? anyways grams was such artist before his time like the eagles he showed how country boy with a country feel how to rock it up alittle without selling out

[circuitstothesun]

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger wrote this for their Sticky Fingers album. Not Gram Parsons

[fukc26]

@circuitstothesun Not sure if srs. Gram Parsons wrote this song.

[CantBeShook]

@fukc26 No, Gram Parsons did not write this song. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger did.

[beezaxe]

@circuitstothesun I honestly can't see the Glimmer twins writing a song like this. Gram probably just wrote the song and gave them the writer credit.

[nooze7]

@beezaxe

You just might be right. My guess is Gram co-wrote this tune and Mick&Keith screwed him out of song writing credits (where the real money is) same as they screwed Mick Taylor which is why Taylor quit. When it came to the Stones, Gram was an incorrigible groupie and prolly went along with this scam just so he could hang wiff Keef.

Just saying.... but this is much better version than the Stones did.

[CantBeShook]

@nooze7 Did you just make that up on the spot?? Utter rubbish.

Parsons wasn't friends with Keith, he was friends with Brian Jones. That's how he starting hanging around with the Stones.

He was recording an album with the FBB in the studio next to where the Stones were record Sticky Fingers and he heard this song and asked could he cover it and the Stones said yes. He released it first, and it just happened to be better than the Stones version.

[KUTVgroucho]

@CantBeShook If you can cite a published source that confirms your story, please do so. I guess you missed the part of Stones' history where Parsons stayed at Redlands for most of the summer of '68 hanging out with Richards after quitting the Byrds. He wasn't hanging out with Brian Jones.

[CantBeShook]

@KUTVgroucho He started hanging out with Jones the year before he left the Byrds.

[KUTVgroucho]

@CantBeShook Cite the source of that claim, please.

[CantBeShook]

@beezaxe You really need to go do some Stones research and listen to some of their stuff.

Mick and Keith wrote this along with many other great tracks.

[beezaxe]

@CantBeShook Please don't tell me to listen to their other stuff. I've probably listened to their entire discography, and not just one time around. There was like a two-month period where I didn't listen to anything but the Stones. I'm an album person, I don't just pick tracks of artists to listen to.

[CantBeShook]

@circuitstothesun At least there's one person who know what their talking about.

[KUTVgroucho]

@CantBeShook And it's not you. I have most every Stones bio ever written and they all confirm my version of the history. Keith Richards' own autobio confirms it. If you can produce some evidence that backs your story, please do so.

By the way, it's THEY'RE, not THEIR.

[CantBeShook]

@KUTVgroucho Oh you read some books?? Well done.

[KUTVgroucho]

@CantBeShook Right, that's typically how one documents facts, instead of making things up.

[evileep]

@CantBeShook The Stone's wrote it and recorded it and sent it to Sneaky Pete to add steel guitar on it. The Stones changed labels and started over on there songs so no Sneaky Pete.

[mrblisterfist]

MSO4 in the desert....what a dirty shame! (his tolerance was too low)

~R.I.P. Gram

[harp1925]

Nice cover of the Stones classic, but the Stones version is definitive. I'd put this next. Keith's lead on the Stones version hits the spot!

[UngKristen]

did gram actually pen this? bogus rumor or troof?

[222Loobylou]

Most beautiful version by far.....

[pbrick6301]

Horses are basicly evil personified and look at the heads too. That is why Jesus never rode one, he preferred donkeys because at least they are loyal.

[MrMartinybaby]

i'm going to kill who vote for dislike

[Erica7x7]

You can hear Gram in this song. All I can say is Gram and Keith were and still are soul brothers,,,,,,,,,,

[jessedan2]

this is better than the original!

[IanSchultz13]

@jessedan2 this is the original version, the Stones wrote it but this was released before

[CantBeShook]

@IanSchultz13 The stones recorded it first, thus making this a cover. Release dates don't make a song original.

[TheMyrmillonis]

At last! I've been waiting for someone to upload this for a LOOOOONG time.

Many, many thanks!

[Keesheia041]

why iz diz da onli picz O_O

[nickierick]

It is soooo much better!

[PoppyOld]

Heard it once- never forgot how good it is

[buffspringfield]

Gram was one great artist shame the booze took him

[OxySmartAss]

66. no way man it's definitely better than the stones, i feel its one Micks best vocals too, at least "pretty" music. Im 43 GPs is haunting like very few others, fathom what we missed

[don92340]

What happened to the Gram version? This is a very good 2nd best version.

[TrinityNick]

To be fair, Keith + Gram would be cooking up in Hell rather than frying...

[MrBohank]

What a loss to lose this man and I love this version much better, so I will burn in hell gladly

[blisstobliss]

This is a great version, but I prefer the Rolling Stones I think because it's bluesy and more tragic sounding. Lol

[idaho101000]

hey guys........gram parsons WROTE this song with Keith Richards , but of course it came out as a Jagger/Richards like all Beatle songs were Lennon/McCartney

[Dukegrievousangel]

@idaho101000 Aw man, that's such rubbish. There's not a single account that gives that any credit whatsoever. Gram had to BEG Mick and Keith to cover it- BEG them.

[BILL4080]

@Dukegrievousangel Prior to its release on Sticky Fingers, Gram Parsons convinced Jagger and Richards to allow him to record "Wild Horses" with his band, The Flying Burrito Brothers. While the Rolling Stones had already laid the track to tape, the Burrito Brothers' version was actually the first to be released, appearing on their second album, Burrito Deluxe, in April 1970, one year before Sticky Fingers.

[MrJsmyers]

@idaho101000 he played it with keith ...keith was a bit stingy when it came to songwriting credits..mick taylor wrote and helped write moonlight Mile and lots of other Stones songs but got very little credit..remember he was a Rolling Stone and the Stones cut his check off in 1982. Gram probally wrote this with keith. gram had so much money that he probally did'nt care but he did record it first

[GrievousAngel66]

I will prolly fry in hell for saying this, but I think this is a better version than the Rolling Stones.

[apuachu]

@GrievousAngel66

This version has more heart to it :)

[tomgibo]

@GrievousAngel66 Yes.

[HomemPacote]

@GrievousAngel66 The let us all fry in hell! You, me, us, Gram, Keith and a whole bunch!

[dloo91]

@GrievousAngel66 me too man. me too



[rbersoul90]

@GrievousAngel66 Dude Parsons Influenced the Stone's Version anyways. Parsons got Richards into Country music and taught him and the stones a lot of what they knew on writing country. Parsons was there when they Recorded Exile on Main Street to =)

[MrJsmyers]

@rbersoul90 Yeh but he was'nt there when they did 'Let It Bleed".Listen to 'You got the Siver,Country Honk ect....So keith had a country sound before he met Gram in 69...This is what they had in common. they both influenced eachother...Been trying to figure out who got the songwriting credit for Wild Horses?

[KUTVgroucho]

@MrJsmyers I'm sorry, but your history is incorrect. Parsons starting hanging out with Richards at Redlands in the summer of 1968 after he left the Byrds, who were about to play concerts South Africa. If you don't believe me you can look it up on any good Stones website or read Victor Bockris's excellent bio on Richards.

[MrJsmyers]

@KUTVgroucho Gram did not play on Let It Bleed...How is my History inccorrect? i think Keith met Gram in 68 or so but they werent really playing together till much later...I think the only 2 albums Gram is on is Sticky fingers and Exile on main St...anyway i did say they met in 69 and im probally wrong about the year..The Burrito Bros opened up for The Stones at Altamont in Dec 69. thanx for loving Gram like I do!

[KUTVgroucho]

@MrJsmyers Your history was incorrect because you cited 1969 instead of 1968 for the introduction of Gram Parsons to the Stones. Gram Parsons is NOT on Sticky Fingers as an instrumentalist or a vocalist. His participation in any Exile sessions in Villefranche was noted and was his influence on the songwriting, especially on Torn and Frayed. The Felix Aeppli database is the definitive source of recording info.

[CantBeShook]

@KUTVgroucho Your history is wrong, Gram started hanging out with the Stones through Brian Jones. Not Keith Richards.

[KUTVgroucho]

@CantBeShook Weeks have passed and you still haven't produced one bit of evidence about Parson's association with Jones pre-dating his with Richards.

[MidnightRambler444]

@GrievousAngel66 - God bless, this great, but no Mick Taylor

[TheBlomberFactory]

@GrievousAngel66 Well come one Jagger cant sing well not like this

[acadx]

@GrievousAngel66 sometimes i think the same thing this version is really good, and that is saying a lot the stones version is one of the best songs ever recorded, but i love gram so much and at times i like this version better also,

i am going to try to go to gram parsons guitar pull in waycross this month

[Erica7x7]

@GrievousAngel66 No I second your opinion. You can hear Gram's soul in this song.

[reptaboy123]

@GrievousAngel66 all 102 of us

[8z88z]

@GrievousAngel66

I mean the same, evertime I hear this song - even with the rolling stones, I hear Gram`s voice in my head!!

[keaton1895]

@GrievousAngel66 I totally agree. There slilde guitar player played on the Stones version and there cover came out before the Stones.

[KUTVgroucho]

@GrievousAngel66 All due respect to Jagger, but Parson's voice here truly captures the longing and pain suggested in the lyrics.

[himester666]

@KUTVgroucho Mick was kind of a limited singer back than but if you listen to the Stripped 95 version of wild horses by the stones it just doesnt get anymore perfect

[KUTVgroucho]

@himester666 I'll have to give that a listen, as I've always thought of Jagger's live singing from '72 and beyond as a less refined shouting-out style that often seem to indicate vocal strain or tour fatigue.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@KUTVgroucho you are kinda right about micks singing on stage

[jojoheartspaypay]

@KUTVgroucho You tube wont let me thumb up on your comment! BUT AGREED..I have dreams he's on the 72 Stones tour doing this with them! He captures the PURE essence of this song.Unbeatable! :O

[prdwilson]

@KUTVgroucho i agree 1000%,,,,,,,

[TheBigDiehl93]

@GrievousAngel66 Gram Parsons sings it much better than McJagger

[ls1959]

Never heard this version before. Never realized that another version was released before Sticky Fingers. After 40 years I'm learning new things from playing around on Youtube.

[kram021155]

Beautiful version of this great song - FBB with Gram was just incredible

[broskijohansson]

@kram021155 FBB without Gram was pretty good too. check out their cover of Gene Clark's "Tried So Hard"