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''Safe at Home'' is a 1968 album by country rock group The International Submarine Band, led by the then-unknown 21-year-old Gram Parsons. The group's only album release, ''Safe at Home'' featured four of Parsons' original compositions rounded out by six covers of classic country and rock and roll songs made famous by the likes of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Hank Snow.〔http://archives.nodepression.com/2002/07/international-submarine-band-safe-at-home/ International Submarine Band Safe At Home (Sundazed (vinyl only))〕 Described as "hippie and hillbilly in equal measure",〔 the album helped to forge the burgeoning country rock movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ==Overview== Recording of ''Safe at Home'' began in July 1967 for Lee Hazlewood's LHI Records, with the group's official lineup consisting solely of Parsons and lead guitarist John Nuese. Rounding out the duo were session drummer Jon Corneal, bassist Joe Osborn, pedal steel guitarist Jay Dee Maness and pianist Earl "Les" Ball, with Hazlewood's girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom producing. Corneal, a childhood friend of Parsons, soon joined the band as a full member. Recorded during these initial sessions were the Parsons originals "Blue Eyes" and "Luxury Liner", soon issued on a 45 single. The group gigged with the additions of guitarist Bob Buchanan and bassist Chris Ethridge over the next few months. Ethridge and Parsons would play together often in the coming years, with both the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Fallen Angels. Four months later, with the group's line-up consisting of Parsons, Nuese, Corneal and Buchanan (augmented by Ball, Maness and Ethridge) the group again entered the studio and recorded two new originals, "Strong Boy" and "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome" along with seven covers, six of which ended up on the original album. By early December, the album was finished and given a target release date of late January or early February 1968, in order to avoid the Christmas rush. Prior to its release, Parsons left the band after accepting an offer to join The Byrds, and ''Safe at Home'' lay dormant for months. According to Corneal, Parsons became so caught up in his new role in The Byrds that he barely acknowledged ''Safe at Home'' as its release approached. "I don't think he wanted to look back, but just keep going in the direction he wanted to go", said Corneal. Rock journalist John Einarson surmised decades later that Parsons abandoned his band and his friends without a second thought once the opportunity to join The Byrds was presented to him.〔 After months of legal wrangling, with the group unable to find a suitable replacement for Parsons, the album was finally released. Though Hazelwood saw no point in devoting a promotional budget to a band which essentially no longer existed and were unavailable to promote the album,〔https://books.google.ca/books?id=WB4AyaDa6kEC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=The+International+Submarine+Band+safe+at+home+review&source=bl&ots=l1hUlGBbgJ&sig=gbzXYB5Afv_P-ScuX1BUS5IT0Fc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FzG1VMrvOYegyASwyYCIDA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=The%20International%20Submarine%20Band%20safe%20at%20home%20review&f=false Hot Burritos: The True Story of The Flying Burrito Brothers〕 ''Safe at Home'' nonetheless received rave reviews from the likes of Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, and Don Everly. "The album got buried", according to producer Hokom, who noted that Hazelwood was a musician first and foremost and not a businessman, and he may have erred in failing to market the release.〔 As part of the legal settlement resulting from Parsons' abrupt departure from The International Submarine Band, The Byrds' 1968 album ''Sweetheart of the Rodeo'' had much of Parsons' lead vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This would be one of Parsons' chief gripes about his tenure in the group, and by the time ''Sweetheart of the Rodeo'' was released in August, 1968, Parsons had already moved on to form The Flying Burrito Brothers. While compiling material for a 2001 Parsons anthology, the lost track "Knee Deep in the Blues" (originally a single by Marty Robbins in 1957)〔 from the ''Safe at Home'' sessions was re-discovered and issued on that anthology, as well as on the 2004 compact disc re-release of ''Safe at Home'' (the original mid-1980s CD pressing having been on the tiny Shiloh Records). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Safe at Home」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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