Flying Burrito Brothers — Burrito Manor, Los Angeles

In 1969, the Flying Burrito Brothers — Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, and Chris Ethridge — were headquartered at a house in the Hollywood Hills that the band and their circle dubbed "Burrito Manor." It was here that the orbit of musicians, Topanga Canyon refugees, and Nudie-suited country rock experimenters that surrounded Parsons gathered, rehearsed, and conspired to fuse honky-tonk with rock and roll in ways that would prove enormously influential. Keith Richards was a frequent visitor during this period, and many trace the Stones' country-inflected sound on "Wild Horses" and "Dead Flowers" directly to his time in Parsons's company.

The Flying Burrito Brothers had formed in late 1968 after Parsons and Hillman left the Byrds following the recording of "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" — the album that introduced country music's structures and sensibilities to rock audiences. The Burritos' debut "The Gilded Palace of Sin" (1969) went further: pedal steel guitar over soul rhythms, Parsons's achingly pure country voice over lyrics about sin and redemption. It sold modestly but its influence was seismic — on the Eagles, Poco, Pure Prairie League, and every Americana act that followed.

The Hollywood Hills house is a private residence and the "Burrito Manor" name was informal, but the address has been identified by biographers and is acknowledged by music historians as a significant creative gathering point for the country rock movement. The era it represents — loose, collaborative, Nudie-suited, deeply earnest — lasted only a few years before Parsons's death in 1973, but its reverberations have never stopped.