It contains the first issued version of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-written song "Wild Horses," released almost a year before the Rolling Stones' own take on it appeared on Sticky Fingers.

In his place the Burritos recruited guitarist Bernie Leadon from the disintegrating Dillard and Clark,[4] freeing Chris Hillman to return to playing bass.

Burrito Deluxe features a couple of cover songs, including the Conway Twitty country hit "Image of Me,” a supercharged version of the Bob Dylan-penned "If You Gotta Go," and the gospel standard "Farther Along.” Parsons began to lose interest in the Burritos and, after missing too many gigs or showing up too inebriated to play, he was fired from the band in June 1970.

[7] In the Fallen Angel documentary, Chris Hillman cites Parsons’ lack of ambition and his growing infatuation with the Rolling Stones as the main reasons for the album's failure: "Gram was starting to wear some pretty interesting stuff on stage.

It was also a critical disappointment at the time, unlike the band's lauded debut LP, with Mark Deming of AllMusic opining, "... while it is hardly a bad album, it's not nearly as striking as The Gilded Palace of Sin.

In the Parsons article, "The Lost Boy," Mojo writer John Harris observes that the album "mislaid just about all of the charm that had accompanied their debut, though it contained a handful of decent songs: 'Older Guys,' 'Cody Cody,' and 'High Fashion Queen.'"