The Flying Burrito Bros (album)

The Flying Burrito Bros
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Bernie Leadon, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Roberts, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke
Studio album by
The Flying Burrito Brothers
ReleasedJune 1971
Recorded1971
StudioSunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California
GenreCountry rock
Length36:15
LabelA&M
ProducerJim Dickson, Bob Hughes
The Flying Burrito Brothers chronology
Burrito Deluxe
(1970) 		The Flying Burrito Bros
(1971) 		Last of the Red Hot Burritos
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[2]

The Flying Burrito Bros is the third album by the country rock group, The Flying Burrito Brothers, released in the spring of 1971. Before recording sessions for the album began, Chris Hillman fired Gram Parsons from the band, leaving Hillman and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow as the only original continuing members. In Parsons' place, the band hired a young unknown musician named Rick Roberts,[3] who later was the primary lead singer of Firefall. Guitarist Bernie Leadon would also leave the band shortly after the album's release, going on to co-found the Eagles.

Over the winter of 1970 to 1971 the band returned to Sunset Studios to record their third album. With Jim Dickson again the producer, assisted by Bob Hughes, the group developed original pieces mainly from Chris Hillman and Rick Roberts, along with a revisitation of a Bob Dylan composition. Several outtakes from the recording sessions later appeared on several compilations following the band's demise. Following the release of the album, further personnel changes occurred including Kleinow departing to focus solely on session recordings.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ "Flying Burrito Brothers Biography". CMT. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-11.
  4. ^ "The Byrds Fly in and Out". burritobrother.com. Retrieved March 17, 2015.