The Flying Burrito Brothers — Christine’s Tune (live)

from Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)

Country Sunday continues with this nice live performance of ‘Christine’s Tune,’ an ode to Sunset Strip groupie Miss Christine, and peerless competitor for “most unflattering song ever.” (She’s a devil in disguise/You can see it in her eyes/She’s telling dirty lies)

Devil or not, Miss Christine had quite miserable luck (apart from her Hollywood hijinks), spending nearly a year in a full-body cast to correct her crooked spine, and then overdosing shortly after, in November 1972, at a house outside Boston rented by none other than Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

Keith Richards huddling under his Navajo blanket and snorting something out of a jar, while Gram Parsons spots something through his spyglass.

Taken at Joshua Tree in 1969, with Anita Pallenberg along for the ride as well. See the whole series at The Selvedge Yard.

photo by Michael Collins