In the summer of 1967, while little squares of sugar blotters promised access to a parallel world of exacerbated sensations, hairy people fomented a revolution of their own. What if beatlesque pop met Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and co? It is the project of the International Submarine Band and its singer and main horse, a man named Gram Parsons. Only here, the Byrds have wind of the new wind and recruit Parsons, colt so happy that he forgets the game plan and the ready-made album of the ISB. Instead, he will do his country-rock fusion with the Byrds and their events Sweetheart of the Rodeo. It will take divers from Sundazed to recover the submarine wreck. From footnote to the Parsons saga, the album Safe at Home is now reissued, increased, celebrated. Just listen to their version of Folsom Prison Blues of Johnny Cash to be convinced: the best drug was not the one we swallowed.
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