The Bee Gees song written for Otis Redding but redone as a hippie country-soul heartbreaker. Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, give it a country twang replete with pedal steel guitar that was entirely absent from the original.

Although I’m a big fan of Gram, I don’t remember hearing this before. It first appeared on a 1974 retrospective double-album compilation called Close Up The Honky Tonks that repackaged most of the band’s first two albums.

The second disc added a bunch of unreleased material including versions of The Everly Brothers’ Wake Up Little Susie, Chuck Berry’s Roll Over Beethoven – and this.

For those that don’t know, The Flying Burrito Brothers virtually invented the blueprint for country-rock with their 1969 debut The Gilded Palace Of Sin.

They were formed by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman after both left The Byrds, where Parsons had steered them towards a country direction during a brief stint that brought us the album Sweetheart Of The Rodeo.

For their new band the duo added pedal steel guitarist “Sneaky” Pete Kleinow and bassist Chris Ethridge and used a variety of session drummers on their landmark debut.

Much like that first Velvet Underground & Nico album, it didn’t sell very well – just 40,000 copies – but brought them a devoted following that included many prominent musicians including Dylan and the Stones, with Parsons and Keith Richards becoming drug buddies.

However, Parsons left the band in 1970 after their second album, Burrito Deluxe, and became a solo star, famed for another two great albums, GP and Grievous Angel, his duets with Emmylou Harris, his Nudie suits – and his early death from an overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn at the age of 26.