Safe at Home is a 1968 album by country rock group the International Submarine Band, led by the then-unknown 21-year-old Gram Parsons. The group's only album release, Safe at Home featured four of Parsons' original compositions rounded out by six covers of classic country and rock and roll songs made famous by the likes of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Hank Snow. Described as "hippie and hillbilly in equal measure", Safe at Home nonetheless received rave reviews from the likes of Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, and Don Everly. "The album got buried", according to producer Hokom, who noted that Hazelwood was a musician first and foremost and not a businessman, and he may have erred in failing to market the release. Parsons' future Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers' bandmate Chris Hillman referred to the album as "sort of fluff now. It's light weight. Gram had not quite developed into the soulful guy he was going to be." Hit Parader magazine gave the album high marks for daring to tackle country music, an area that most contemporary American groups wouldn't touch in the liberal heyday of the late 1960s.
Safe at Home
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