Album Notes
17 tracks recorded at a Hollywood Studio party! The famous originals Sin City, Wheels, and Bon Soir Blues in live versions; and great versions of classic country tunes like She Thinks I Still Care, White Line Fever, Dim lights, Thick Smoke, and Faded Love. There’s even a Chuck Berry medley. Hear your favorite country rockers rock!
“When I joined then A&M licensee BMG/Ariola Records way back in early 1971 I felt that a much better job could be done establishing my favorite Burritos as the most exciting band around. I convinced the label management to do a cheap sampler, picked the tracks and came up with the idea for the poster cover. The original quote from the printers was a mistake, in hindsight the cover was so expensive that the deep-red “Hot Burrito” album should never have seen the light of day! It went gold and the Holland became the FBB’s second homeland. It’s funny that a generation later I got another Red album coming my way, this time with Corazong Records.” – Evert Wilbrink, 2003
Artist's Bio
The 'Red Hot' Burrito Brothers - Mendocino, 1974-76.
The Flying Burrito Brothers helped forge the connection between rock and country, and with their 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, they virtually invented the blueprint for country-rock. The name of the Burrito Brothers is, as Chris Ethridge did put it, "synonymous with the origins of country rock", and like another such band there at the beginning, the Byrds, they have a history that twists incestuously in and out of the Los Angeles country band and studio scene.
The first Burritos band was founded by Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons, both of whom broke away from the Byrds. Their band included Ethridge and Pete Kleinow, plus John Corneal. Hillman went on to greater fame with Steve Stills' Manassas and with the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. Over the course of the years the band went through various personnel changes and included at times Bernie Leadon, now with the Eagles; Rick Roberts, who left to play with Steve Stills; and Al Perkins and Byron Berline, who travelled with a lattter-day assemblage of the band, and later as Country Gazette, to Europe.
The Burritos' name was in limbo for a couple of years but was resurrected in '74 by two of the original members, Chris Ethridge (bass) and 'Sneaky' Pete (pedal steel) along with ex-Byrd Gene Parsons (drums), Joel Scott Hill (guitar and vocals) and Gib Guilbeau (fiddle).
