Amoeba offers free Gram Parsons track, more

One week deadlines can be difficult to remember. Eons away, they seem, until suddenly you’ve got $100 in Blockbuster charges, un-redeemable Six Flags coupons and food poison. Keeping that in mind, you might as well go ahead and take care of this now: for one week only, through August 23, newly launched Amoeba Records is handing out free MP3s like Sam’s Club sausage-ball samples. Only two of them, mind you, but they’re pretty swell: Brandi Shearer’s “Lullabies” from her upcoming album, Close to Dark (Aug. 28) and a never-before-heard (by anyone not at the April 4, 1969 concert) Gram Parsons song “Long Black Limousine” from Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers ‘Live’ at the Avalon 1969 (Oct. 30). Deep breath.

Amoeba Records is the label venture of Amoeba Music, a small, California-based chain of very large independent music outlets/venues founded in 1990.

Dig in:

Brandi Shearer - "Lullabies"
Gram Parsons - "Long Black Limousine"

Related links:
Amoeba.com
GramParsons.com
BrandiShearer.com

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