Credited with launching the idea of the “Rhinestone Cowboy,” Kyiv-born tailor Cohn began making bejeweled jackets and pants for country stars like Lefty Frizzell and Roy Rogers. The Flying Burrito Brothers were far from the first musicians to don Nudie suits. They say, ‘Well, we are planning to have a beautiful set of suits.’ It was a beautiful project.” “He was the one who came around to me for so long. MANUEL CUEVAS, NUDIE COHN’S CHIEF DESIGNER, remembers when the Burritos came around to Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood. “Gram was fun,” recalls Cuevas. “It was a really shitty neighborhood,” Kaufman says, “and they just grabbed something.”įlying Burrito Brothers Jim McCrary/Redferns The next morning, to his horror, he saw that someone had broken into the wagon - one of the bags, containing bass player Chris Ethridge’s jacket and pants, was missing. Named after Nudie Cohn, the immigrant who owned the Hollywood store that made and sold the outfits, the Burritos’ “Nudie suits” were walking works of art, festooned with everything from poppy flowers to a smiling sun.īefore crashing for the night, Kaufman locked his car and trunk, where, he says, the suits were stashed in separate dry-cleaning bags. In the trunk of his Ford Country Squire station wagon were the embroidered cowboy suits the band had worn onstage and on the cover of its first album, The Gilded Place of Sin. Then the road manager for the Flying Burrito Brothers, one of the bands credited with finding the common ground between rock & roll and honky-tonk country, Kaufman had just returned home to Los Angeles, after some Burrito-related work in 1969. The shows were over, but for Phil Kaufman, the headache was just beginning.
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