  the gilded palace of sin is the first album by the country rock group the flying burrito brothers, released in 1969. it continued gram parsons' and chris hillman's work in modern country music, fusing traditional sources like folk and country with other forms of popular music like gospel, soul, and rock & roll. the gilded palace of sin is listed at number 192 in rolling stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time."500 greatest albums: the gilded palace of sin", rolling stone ==album details== after the release of the byrds' album sweetheart of the rodeo, gram parsons left the byrds on the eve of a south african tour. chris hillman, the group's bass player, soon left as well and eventually joined parsons in a new band, the flying burrito brothers, as guitarist. their first album as the flying burrito brothers was the gilded palace of sin. most of the songs were written by parsons and hillman at a house in the san fernando valley dubbed "burrito manor." the two r&b standards covered on the album, "dark end of the street" and "do right woman", are examples of a country-soul fusion that parsons would often refer to as "cosmic american music." "my uncle" and "hippie boy" address then-contemporary countercultural concerns: the draft and the 1968 democratic national convention riots. rather than playing in an orthodox fashion, pedal steel guitarist "sneaky" pete kleinow often utilized a fuzzbox and/or played the instrument through a rotating hammond leslie amplifier, adding a psychedelic touch to several songs. "sin city", co-written by hillman and parsons, 
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