Of the many premature deaths from the wave of great ‘60s musicians, Gram Parsons is one of the most tragic. A deeply gifted singer and songwriter, he’s universally (if not entirely accurately) ...
Nov. 12—I sometimes imagine a music buff hearing these lines from a David Allen Coe song for the first time and doing a double take while pondering their meaning: "I heard the burritos out in ...
The myth of Gram Parsons as father of country rock (and thus mainstream country music of the mid-1980s and Americana today) stretches the truth so far that it obscures the contributions of myriad ...
Love hurts, and so, if you’re a Gram Parsons fan, does the idea that the world has had to do without him for 50 years, as of September of this year. Imagining how his style might have changed over the ...
Cleveland’s the New Soft Shoe, a group that covers tunes by the late, great singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, will celebrate its 13-year anniversary with an album tribute and special guests when it ...
On this day (September 19) in 1973, Gram Parsons died in Joshua Tree, California, at the age of 26. Before his death, he formed and played in some of the most consequential bands of the 1960s. He is ...
Parsons' daughter, Polly Parsons, and Amoeba co-founder Dave Prinz tell the tale of the tape — a superb set with Emmylou Harris that was released after 50 years for Record Store Day's Black Friday ...