The Flying Burrito Bros is the third album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the country rock

Country rock

Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...

 group The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album,The Gilded Palace of Sin . Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, the group underwent many personnel changes.-Original...

, released in 1971. Before recording sessions for the album began, Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...

 would leave the band for a solo career, leaving Chris Hillman

Chris Hillman

Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....

 and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow

Sneaky Pete Kleinow

Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow was an American country-rock musician, songwriter, and a motion picture special effects artist...

 to carry on. In Parsons' place, the band hired a young unknown musician named Rick Roberts

Rick Roberts (musician)

Rick Roberts is a country rock and classic rock singer-songwriter who recorded with many influential artists over several genres in the 1970s. He is best known for his work with The Flying Burrito Brothers on their 1971 self-titled album, and as a founding member and lead singer of Firefall from...

. His influence is felt all over the album from his multiple songwriting credits to his vocals.

Track listing

1. "White Line Fever" (Merle Haggard
   Merle Haggard
   Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
   
   ) – 3:16
2. "Colorado" (Rick Roberts) – 4:52
3. "Hand to Mouth" (Rick Roberts, Chris Hillman) – 3:44
4. "Tried So Hard" (Gene Clark
   Gene Clark
   Gene Clark, born Harold Eugene Clark was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds....
   
   ) – 3:08
5. "Just Can't Be" (Rick Roberts, Chris Hillman) – 4:58
6. "To Ramona
   To Ramona
   "To Ramona" is a folk waltz written by Bob Dylan for his fourth studio album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. The song is one of the many on the album to highlight the more personal, and less political, side of Dylan's songwriting that would become evermore prominent in the future...
   
   " (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) – 3:40
7. "Four Days of Rain" (Rick Roberts) – 3:39
8. "Can't You Hear Me Calling" (Rick Roberts, Chris Hillman) – 2:23
9. "All Alone" (Rick Roberts/Chris Hillman) – 3:33
10. "Why Are You Crying" (Rick Roberts) – 3:02

Personnel

• Rick Roberts
  Rick Roberts (musician)
  Rick Roberts is a country rock and classic rock singer-songwriter who recorded with many influential artists over several genres in the 1970s. He is best known for his work with The Flying Burrito Brothers on their 1971 self-titled album, and as a founding member and lead singer of Firefall from...
  
  : vocals, rhythm guitar
• Chris Hillman
  Chris Hillman
  Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....
  
  : vocals, bass
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow
  Sneaky Pete Kleinow
  Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow was an American country-rock musician, songwriter, and a motion picture special effects artist...
  
  : pedal steel guitar
• Bernie Leadon
  Bernie Leadon
  Bernard Mathew "Bernie" Leadon, III is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of two pioneering and highly influential country rock bands, Dillard & Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers...
  
  : vocals, guitars, banjo
• Michael Clarke
  Michael Clarke (musician)
  Michael Clarke , was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the 1960s rock group The Byrds from 1964 to 1967. He died in 1993, at age 47, from liver failure, a direct result of more than three decades of heavy alcohol consumption.-Biography:Clarke was born Michael James Dick in...
  
  : drums

Additional personnel

• Earl P. Ball: piano
• Bob Gibson
  Bob Gibson (musician)
  Samuel Robert Gibson was a folk singer who led a folk music revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was known for playing both the banjo and the 12-string guitar. He introduced a then largely unknown Joan Baez at the Newport Folk Festival of 1959. He produced a number of LPs in the decade...
  
  : guitar
• Mike Deasy: guitar

Production

• Producer: Jim Dickson/Bob Hughes
• Recording Engineer: Lillian Davis Douma / Bob Hughes
• Art Direction: unknown
• Photography: unknown
• Liner Notes: unknown