Nice article about "Chris Hillman on the Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and the End of the Sixties" from Rolling Stone:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...Xy1?li=BBnbhK0

Eagles reference!
Neither Sweetheart nor Gilded Palace were huge sales successes, but their impact was immediate as country-rock took off in the Seventies. Hillman remembers Glenn Frey watching the Burritos obsessively at the Troubador, and puts it plainly: “When we handed the ball off to the Eagles, they ran it in for 10 touchdowns.”