Monday, December 17, 2007

Famed Amoeba Music store/label offers free Gram Parsons, Brandi Shearer downloads

Beginning today, Dec. 17, Amoeba Music, the famed record store-turned-label, will offer users the chance to download two songs every two weeks free of charge from Brandi Shearer and Gram Parsons.

The download series kicks off with Shearer's unreleased version of Parson's "Hickory Wind," which was recorded live at Amoeba's record store in L.A., as well as "Close Up the Honky Tonks," the lead-off track from cut from "Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live at the Avalon Ballroom, 1969."

Future downloads will be taken from Shearer's 'Close To Dark' and disc one of the Gram Parson Archive Vol. 1.

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