Audience

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DVD 214; lineage: Reportedly an audience recording made by Brian Ahern prior to producing the "Pieces of Sky" album

Recorded after GP's death but just prior to recording Pieces Of The Sky
From Bill De Young's article in Goldmine:

{After Gram Parsons's death} Emmy moved back to D.C., where Tom Guidera had also become a country music convert. With pedal steel player Danny Pendleton and two other musicians, they put together the Angel Band and started gigging around the clubs, playing some of the songs sheíd performed with Gram. Eddie Tickner made Harris his number one priority and he convinced Mary Martin, an A&R representative from Warner/Reprise Records (the label that had released Parsonsí solo work) to investigate an Angel Band show in a Washington nightclub.

Emmylou Harris became a Reprise Records recording artist in 1974; with her daughter Hallie in tow, the Angel Band relocated to Los Angeles to begin work on Harrisís first true solo album.

To produce, Martin paired Harris up with Nova Scotia native Brian Ahern, the mastermind behind Anne Murrayís spate of hits in the early 70ís. She brought the quiet Canadian to hear the Angel Band, and he recorded the performance on a hand-held cassette machine to study at home.
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This sounds better than a hand-held cassette machine recording, purportedly a sound board, but it's not by any means what we think of as soundboard quality by today's standards.

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