The Complete Reprise Sessions

Disc 1
1	Still Feeling Blue 2:43
2	We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning 3:14
3	A Song for You 5:00
4	Streets of Baltimore 2:55
5	She 5:01
6	That's All It Took 3:01
7	The New Soft Shoe 3:55
8	Kiss the Children 3:00
9	Cry One More Time 3:41
10	How Much I've Lied 2:29
11	Big Mouth Blues 3:58
12	GP Radio Promo Bonus Track 1:01
13	How Did You Meet Emmylou Harris? Bonus Track / Interview 1:54
14	What Is the Story Behind "A Song for You"? Bonus Track / Interview 0:23
15	What Is the Story Behind "The New Soft Shoe"? Bonus Track / Interview 0:54
16	WBCN Interview with Maxine Satori Bonus Track 2:30
17	Love Hurts / N.D. Smart II 4:58
18	Sin City / N.D. Smart II Bonus Track 5:20
Disc 2
1	Return of the Grievous Angel 4:26
2	Hearts on Fire 3:52
3	I Can't Dance 2:24
4	Brass Buttons 3:30
5	$1000 Wedding 5:05
6	Medley from Northern Quebec: Cash on the Barrelhead/Hickory Wind 6:28
7	Love Hurts 3:42
8	Ooh Las Vegas 3:32
9	In My Hour of Darkness 3:49
10	Return of the Grievous Angel Bonus Track / Instrumental 4:32
11	Did You Sing "Hickory Wind" at the Grand Ole Opry? Bonus Track 1:50
12	What Differences Do You See Between Pure Country and Country Rock? Bonus Track 1:09
Disc 3
1	She previously unreleased / Alternate Version 4:58
2	That's All It Took previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:02
3	Still Felling Blue previously unreleased / Alternate Version 2:40
4	Kiss the Children / Barry Tashian previously unreleased 2:59
5	Streets of Baltimore previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:00
6	We'll Sweep Ot the Ashes in the Morning previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:18
7	The New Soft Shoe previously unreleased / Alternate Version 4:05
8	Return of the Grievous Angel #1 previously unreleased / Alternate Version 4:28
9	In My Hour of Darkness previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:46
10	Ooh Las Vegas previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:45
11	I Can't Dance previously unreleased / Alternate Version 2:25
12	Sleepless Nights previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:36
13	Love Hurts previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:47
14	Brass Buttons previously unreleased / Alternate Version 3:27
15	Hickory Wind previously unreleased / Alternate Version 4:17
16	Brand New Heartache 2:27
17	Sleepless Nights 3:26
18	The Angels Rejoiced Last Night 2:24

Barnes & Noble

It's hard to imagine the Americana sound -- from the Eagles and America to Lucinda Williams and Ryan Adams, not to mention the iconic Emmylou Harris -- without the musical bedrock laid down by Gram Parsons in his brief 26 years. Parsons' musical output is painfully short on quantity but lusciously deep, drawing together strains of country, rock, and soul in an irresistible package that he preferred to call "cosmic American music." Whereas the 2001 collection Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology traces the full spectrum of his career, this three-CD collector's box, co-produced by his frequent duet partner Harris, zones in on Parsons' post-Byrds/Burritos solo work, representing some of his most heartfelt material and hinting at the unfulfilled promise of his tragically short career. The first two discs offer gorgeously remastered versions of Parsons' two solo albums, 1973's GP and 1974's Grievous Angel, fleshed out by rare interviews and bonus cuts, including stripped-down on-air duets with Harris on "Love Hurts" and the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Sin City." The discs are housed in scaled-down replicas of the original album covers (with stiff cardboard sleeves, no less), but the real draw for Parsonologists here is the third disc, which contains 15 semi-acoustic alternate versions recently discovered on the original session tapes, most previously unissued. Highlights include a solo take on the original weeper "She"; the classic, '50s-style "Kiss the Children," written and performed with producer Rik Grech; a spare version of "The New Soft Shoe" that plays like an intimate demo; a rousing yet cozy "Ooh Las Vegas"; a warm take on "Hickory Wind," free of the overdubbed crowd sounds on the album version; a subtly haunting rendition of the Parsons-Harris hymn "In My Hour of Darkness"; and a slow-burning "Love Hurts." The disc ends with yet another stunning duet, on the Louvin Brothers' "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night" -- one of many tunes that finds Parsons battling between the dark and light forces in his life -- which didn't make the cut for Grievous Angel. In the liner notes, Harris recalls, "Gram's writing brought his own personal generation's poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different." Original, yes, and enduring. Lydia Vanderloo

Los Angeles Daily News

It's the third disc that's the lure - 15 alternate takes spotlighting the improvisational skills of Parsons' crack band while he and Emmylou Harris discover the magic of their intertwined voices. Glenn Whipp