Hot Burritos! The Flying Burrito Brothers Anthology 1969-1972

Disc 1
1	Christine's Tune (aka Devil in Disguise) 3:02
2	Sin City 4:09
3	Do Right Woman 3:57
4	Dark End of the Street 3:50
5	My Uncle 2:37
6	Wheels 3:02
7	Juanita 2:30
8	Hot Burrito No. 1 3:37
9	Hot Burrito No. 2 3:17
10	Do You Know How It Feels 2:08
11	Hippie Boy 4:55
12	The Train Song 3:04
13	Lazy Days 2:58
14	Image of Me 3:19
15	High Fashion Queen 2:07
16	If You Gotta Go 1:49
17	Man In The Fog 2:31
18	Farther Along 4:00
19	Older Guys 2:29
20	Cody, Cody 2:45
21	God's Own Singer 2:05
22	Down In The Churchyard 2:20
23	Wild Horses 6:20
Disc 2
1	Six Days On The Road 2:56
2	Close up the Honky-Tonks 2:18
3	Break My mind 2:22
4	Dim Lights 2:55
5	Sing Me Back Home 3:50
6	Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down 2:53
7	To Love Somebody 3:19
8	White Line Fever 3:16
9	Colorado 4:52
10	Hand to Mouth 3:44
11	Tried So Hard 3:08
12	Just Can't Be 4:58
13	To Ramona 3:40
14	Four Days of Rain 3:39
15	Can't You Hear Me Calling 2:57
16	All Alone 2:23
17	Why Are You Crying 3:33
18	Here Tonight 3:02
19	Ain't That A Lot Of Love Live 3:29
20	Losing Game Live 3:20

Barnes & Noble

The godfathers of country rock -- and by extension, all of the alt-country movements that have followed -- are finally given their full due on this lovingly annotated, nicely packaged two-CD retrospective. The band's most important albums -- The Gilded Palace of Sin and Burrito Deluxe -- are presented here in their entirety, rife with songs (like "Hot Burrito #2" and the hippie-bluegrass anthem "My Uncle") that, even three decades on, manage to sound remarkably fresh. That's a testament to the vision of the late Gram Parsons, who, along with expatriate Byrd Chris Hillman, forged the Burritos into a force that could remake and remodel songs like the soul classic "The Dark End of the Street" and the trucker-speak chestnut "Six Days on the Road" with equal aplomb. While the urgency flags a bit toward the end of this chronologically assembled set, the music on Anthology 1969-1972 is still an invaluable reference for those who've only heard the Burritos in passing -- with the archival material sealing the deal for longtime fans. David Sprague

All Music Guide

There's little question that the double-disc collection Hot Burritos! The Flying Burrito Brothers Anthology 1969-1972 is comprehensive, since it contains the entirety of the band's first three albums plus a bevy of rarities, including six songs from Close Up the Honky-Tonks, two cuts from Sleepless Nights, two tracks from The Last of the Red Hot Burritos, the non-LP single "The Train Song," and "Six Days on the Road," originally released on the 1988 collection Farther Along: The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers. That pretty much covers everything they cut during those four years. Since the Burritos were truly great while Gram Parsons was in the band -- once he left, they were still solid, thanks to Chris Hillman -- this may border on overkill for some listeners, especially since the Parsons years are covered expertly by Farther Along, which contained all but one song from The Gilded Palace of Sin, plus the best songs from Deluxe and rarities and highlights from posthumous releases. For neophytes, that's a better bet, yet the converted will find this quite nice. Apart from "The Train Song," which rarely shows up on collections, there aren't any revelations or even new songs, but there are nice liner notes, great outtakes from the photo shoot for Gilded Palace, and exquisite remastered sound. And, for Parsons fanatics, the Hillman-led Flying Burrito Brothers may seem like a new record, too, since they may have previously overlooked it. So, diehards get all the Parsons material in one place, while neophytes with a serious attention span will be introduced to one of the great bands of the last 25 years of the 20th century -- and, yes, that means it qualifies as definitive. Stephen Thomas Erlewine