Posthumous Changes
The released album almost certainly deviates from the intended track listing Parsons had. Parsons' widow, Gretchen, who had never cared for Harris' relationship with her husband, moved her originally prominent presence on the original front cover of the album (the album being credited on that cover to "Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris" and featuring a photograph of the two of them) and relegated her to a simple credit on the back cover. Additionally, Gretchen removed the original title track, "Sleepless Nights" and replaced the cover with a simple image of Parsons in a sea of blue. The rearranged album was released in January 1974.
The three tracks recorded during the sessions that had gone unreleased, "Sleepless Nights", "The Angels Rejoiced in Heaven Last Night" and "Brand New Heartache", were released on the posthumous 1976 Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers album Sleepless Nights.
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