Two CM graduates head to Harvard May 28, 2008
Masterson is looking forward to studying in the same setting as musicians before him like Rivers Cuomo, Gram Parsons, and Yo Yo Ma. An accomplished musician already, Masterson grew up in Norwood and Walpole, but enrolled at CM in 9th grade. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
Live Music Picks May 9, 2008
In 2007, he released his first proper solo album, "The Salvation Blues," an album haunted by two spectres Gram Parsons and the end of the Olson-Williams marriage. It's poetic, poignant and, ultimately, uplifting, and it's one of alt-country's finest moments of this decade. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
OCEANSIDE: Anti-drug concert planned for Sunday Apr 19, 2008
Hey, their efforts are all well and good, but where would rock n roll be without Keith Richards, Gram Parsons, Ray Charles, Muddy Waters and all the other hooch tokin characters. Isn't this as much an oxymoron as christian heavy metal. (North County Times)
Harmonious union Apr 18, 2008
Think Johnny and June Cash, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris who were rumoured to be lovers and Gillian Welch and David Rawlins ... "We wrote these songs, like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, where you can't even tell who is singing the lead.". (The Age)
Singer Kort McCumber keeps golf in his repertoire Apr 17, 2008
"This record is real rootsy bluegrass and American stuff; sort of like the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons with my own little stamp on it adding elements of blues, country and rock," he said. You can find out more about Mr. McCumber and his music through his Web site. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Life can be so sweet Apr 12, 2008
Sometimes it's not, like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. But something about the two points of view lifts the music up, which is what happens with song after song on. (Courier Mail)
Roger McGuinn Mar 27, 2008
The Byrds, featuring the core of McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke and, later, Gram Parsons, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Although there has been interest from surviving members Hillman and Crosby to work again, McGuinn has repeatedly said he doesn't want to be the old guy in the rock band. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Partners in rhyme Mar 22, 2008
Holed up at the same LA hotel where Gram Parsons and Howard Hughes once lived, he and bandmate Danger Mouse are currently bathing in the glow of making an album that will warp minds and wobble hips across the globe. Otherwise known as Gnarls Barkley, these two are the fancy-dressed eccentrics who - two years ago - laid claim to the UK's No 1 singles spot for nine weeks with Crazy, the first ever song to top the charts via download sales alone. (Guardian Unlimited)
You missed Dinosaur City ... Soriano to pitch! Mar 15, 2008
Had the Band of Horses great second CD blaring, then some Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers live (from a show at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco when they opened for the Dead) and finally, as I rolled into Clearwater, the terrific new John Doe album, his most rockin and best solo work to date ... SIN CITY by Gram Parsons and Chris Hilman ... I m a huge fan of the man, Gram Parsons a Georgia boy, by the way. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Madonna leads class into rock hall Mar 8, 2008
Morse long and unsuccessfully argued on behalf of the late Gram Parsons. "It seems like this is driven by commercial achievement and sales, rather than having anything to do with the rock 'n' roll genre," Morse said. (The Advocate)
25 biggest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs Mar 7, 2008
Gram Parsons (I m stunned he s not in) ... You can t get them all in right away, but for the love of God, at least start with Three Dog Night, Gram Parsons and Cat Stevens ... Cat Stevens had been part of my top 50, as had the Doobie Brothers and Gram Parsons. (The Palm Beach Post)
Long trip to Poet's Grove; Stevens loves the Texas heritage Feb 22, 2008
I asked him about one of my cult favorites from that time - Gram Parsons - and Stevens' eyes lighted up and he said, "Oh yeah, he was awesome.". Stevens is one of the world's finest builders of electric stringed instruments. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Documentary Filmmakers Capture Life Of Merle Haggard Feb 20, 2008
Hennigs fascination with Haggard began while exploring the life of Gram Parsons in the 2004 documentary he wrote and directed. Gram was influence by Merle Haggard quite a bit, Hennig said. (KERO 23, CA)
Emmylou Harris, Statler Brothers selected for Country Music Hall of Fame Feb 13, 2008
first became known for her duet work with Gram Parsons in the 1970s. After Parsons' death in 1973, she began a successful solo career that has spanned pop, country rock and Americana, and earned her 12 Grammy Awards. (USA Today -- Life)
Country Music Hall of Fame Welcomes Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall and Statlers Feb 13, 2008
But it was meeting Gram Parsons later, she explained, that really taught her to appreciate country music. "It's the music that gave me my true voice," she said. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Hollywood's Home for Misbehaving Celebs Feb 10, 2008
"Would you like to stay in the room where Gram Parsons died?" Parsons was a singer and songwriter who is considered one of the first country rock stars. He overdosed when he was 26 in 1973. (ABC News)
Whiskeytown's 'Almanac' Bolstered For Reissue Jan 31, 2008
The band also tackles Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner," Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone" and the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over.". Fronted by a then-22-year-old Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown originally released the set through Geffen-owned imprint Outpost in 1997. (Billboard.com)
Self-destruction, live Jan 25, 2008
Rock history is punctuated with sad stories: suicides like Kurt Cobain, Nick Drake and Ian Curtis, and the excess-induced deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons, Sid Vicious and Jerry Garcia. Yet there have also been countless tales of abuse, bottoming out and survival, from the Rolling Stones to Metallica. (International Herald Tribune)
Swapping Songs With 3 Girls and Their Buddy Jan 24, 2008
The night began with Harris singing Gram Parsons' "Return of the Grievous Angel." For her next turn, she sang Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors," which she said she hasn't sung in a long while, and she praised Parton as an extraordinary songwriter. One curious turn of events came when they offered four love songs in a row, in honor of the 50th anniversary of a friend's parents who were in the crowd. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Put your hands together for the hardest working man in show biz! Jan 18, 2008
Country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons is clearly one of Adams' biggest influences they also share the same birthday but he's hardly the only one. Adams' 2001 album, the hard-rocking Gold, owed such a debt to the music of The Rolling Stones, The Band, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and other legendary artists that at times it was easy to forget the album was by Adams, not them. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Band blends country, rock sounds Jan 17, 2008
The Byrds and Gram Parsons played with both rock and country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Eagles found success with a soft rock sound that owed more to Nashville than New York. But for the most part, country and rock were closely related relatives that rarely spoke. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Blue Rodeo connects with intimate show Jan 13, 2008
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor's seminal Canadian alt-country rockers were as capable of conjuring up Joe Strummer as they were Gram Parsons. Now on their umpteenth tour of Canadian soft-seat theatres, Blue Rodeo played to a sold-out crowd at the Jubilee Auditorium on Wednesday night and made it clear their days of punk-flavoured rave-ups may be behind them. (Calgary Herald)
Thanks to Manuel, Country Stars Still Glitter Jan 10, 2008
One of Manuel's most notorious pieces is a suit worn by Gram Parsons for the Flying Burrito Brothers' Gilded Palace of Sin album in 1969. "That boy put his stamp on the map," Manuel says. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
2007 in review Jan 2, 2008
" While Kleinow's movie-making talents earned him a 1983 Emmy for the "Winds of War" miniseries, he is best known for his music, which included sessions with some of the biggest names in the business. Kleinow played guitar with John Lennon, Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel, to name a few, and opened for the Rolling Stones at Altamont as the guitarist for the Flying Burrito Brothers. He played what some called a psychedelic pedal steel guitar, catching the eye of the Byrds' Gram Parsons and Chris... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lasting impactSome of the key entertainment figures who died in 2007 Dec 30, 2007
He was a charismatic and influential performer who also produced acts like Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons and latterly became something of a cult figure in the alternative music scene. In 2005, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. (BBC News -- UK)
Judd Apatow On The Rockin' Shows That Inspired 'Walk Hard' Dec 21, 2007
Who knows, maybe if we hadn't made this film he would have one day made a film where he played the lead singer of T. Rex or Gram Parsons or Miles Davis. (He could do it. (MTV.com)
An unusual flurry of rock books this winter offers fans a behind-the-music intimacy Dec 16, 2007
Other rock books available this winter include a biography on Gram Parsons by David N. Meyer, and an upcoming unauthorized bio of Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose, by Mick Wall. The next big rock autobiographies on the horizon. (North County Times)
Native singer enjoying success in music world Dec 7, 2007
"Wilson began writing her own songs and playing them at open-mike nights when she caught the attention of fellow musician and founder of The Gougers, Shane Walker."I had already started the original version of The Gougers at the time and was liking the Gram Parsons thing all the time, so I was looking for a female harmony person," Walker said."There was this guy on stage, and I heard Jamie singing along in the crowd. Whenever I heard the voice and saw the person that was making it, I thought... (Sealy News, TX)
Sound advice on box sets Nov 23, 2007
Handpicked by Harris, the songs on the four discs (plus a DVD with nine videos) feature the singer in her prime, alone and alongside Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and, of course, Gram Parsons. Various, "Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970"From the well-known - Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin - to the historical footnotes - Frumious Bandersnatch - this compendium of the Haight-Ashbury groovers, complete with hardcover book, covers everything from... (Boston Globe)
Pick out a box set for every musical taste Nov 23, 2007
Harris' duet partners range from Gram Parsons to The Pretenders. Frills: There are 13 previously unreleased tracks among the set's 78, including outtakes from the Trio sessions with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton and an alternate version of a song from Harris' rarely heard first album. (USA Today -- Life)
For Flannery, music and baseball fit like a glove Nov 17, 2007
" Flannery's latest project is his new CD, The Wayward Wind, a paean to the "cosmic California" mixture of country and rock that was pioneered by the late Gram Parsons and inspired many successful groups, including the Eagles. Flannery urges listeners to go to his Web site, , and burn themselves a CD of free downloads of selections from all of his albums, some of which are now out of print. "I didn't get into music or baseball to make a dollar," Flannery says. "I do it because I love it. " He's... (MLB.com -- San Francisco Giants)
Pack food, don’t throw it Nov 14, 2007
There are some other words that I cannot get out of my head, which were sung by Gram Parsons many years ago in a song called "Sin City." The chorus haunts me, as it should the human race, "...on the thirty-first floor - a gold-plated door - won't keep out the Lord's burning rain.". TIMOTHY HOLMSETH can be reached at. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Schedule | Sunday events Nov 10, 2007
Subtropics Literary Magazine. Batten, Building 2, 1st floor, Room 2106. (The Miami Herald)
Jason Ringenberg to perforn at Creative Arts Center Oct 25, 2007
The original roots-punk barnstormer, wile Gram Parsons may have the distinction of being the granddaddy of the ill-named alt-country genre, Illinois farm boy Jason Ringenberg is certainly the man who brought it to the stages of the world with a vengeance. Born in 1958 and raised on a pig farm in southern Illinois, Ringenberg moved to Nashville in 1981 to try his luck as a songwriter. (Wellsville Daily Reporter, NY)
Sonic fury of a contrary soul Oct 21, 2007
Among his peers, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and Jerry Garcia are long departed. He declines most interview requests. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: If I Ran Nashville Oct 13, 2007
Here are some candidates that come immediately to mind among the dead: Ray Charles, Jimmy Martin, Johnny Horton, Charlie Rich, Dottie West and Gram Parsons. And here's some living nominees who should be inducted: Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, Ralph Emery, Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare, Billy Sherrill, Glen Campbell, Hank Cochran, the Statler Brothers, Cowboy Jack Clement, Billy Joe Shaver, the Oak Ridge Boys and Jerry Reed. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
20 Questions With Merle Haggard Oct 9, 2007
Could you please explain your relationship with Gram Parsons and tell me what happened when he wanted you to produce his solo album, and what did you think of the songs he recorded of yours. He came to my house when I lived in Bakersfield probably in the late '60s, and we talked about what we were going to do. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
'I head for the ditch' Oct 4, 2007
Most of his peers - Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and Jerry Garcia - are long departed. He declines most interview requests. (Guardian Unlimited)
REVIEW: Bright Eyes lights his own fireworks at the Bowl Oct 2, 2007
His songwriting might borrow from Gram Parsons, Allen Ginsberg or Charles Bukowski (to cite just three elders), but it's so intimate, and so resplendently ego-driven, that those sources fade from view. Saturday's retrospective set showed Oberst's growth from the florid but almost impenetrable early song "Arienette," about an imaginary girlfriend, to the equally dramatic but much more nuanced "Hot Knives," which isn't a personal song at all but a character study that questions the confines of... (Los Angeles Times)
Rolling Stone Magazine Hits a Sour Note Over Hall of Fame Nominees Oct 1, 2007
And I haven t even raised the idea of Poco, Aaron Neville, the Turtles, Gram Parsons and hitmakers Three Dog Night, whose members made hits for dozens of new songwriters including Harry Nilsson, John Hiatt, Jimmy Cliff, Hoyt Axton, Paul Williams and Randy Newman. The lists go on and on. (Fox News)
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Emmylou Harris' Songbird a Gem Sep 15, 2007
"Sweet Chariot" is on Portraits, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" is included on Songbird, and "Rhythm Guitar is on Anthology. I suspect she senses, rightly, that such albums as Sally Rose (and perhaps Thirteen, for that matter) stand best alone. Her duets and trios are well represented here with artists including the late Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Beck, Steve Earle, Mark Knopfler, Waylon Jennings, Vince Gill, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Guy Clark, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Carl Jackson, Sheryl Crow,... (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Low Country Suite Sep 1, 2007
In the late 1960s the Byrds, Gram Parsons, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and others took American country music, with its conservatism and more than a hint of rock'n'roll, and brought it into the world of contemporary pop and rock. In recent times, largely due to the revival of bluegrass and traditional country, that advance has been largely forgotten. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Read on... Aug 27, 2007
JM: Yasujiro Ozu, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Preston Sturges, Abraham Lincoln. Cathy Konrad and James Mangold, producer and director behind 3:10 to Yuma. (Variety)
Country music's living legend comes to Athens Aug 24, 2007
" With and without his brother - who died in an auto accident in 1965, two years after the two split up their act - Louvin has done well by the old school. The Louvin Brothers had more than a dozen hit records, including "Must You Throw Dirt In My Face," between 1955 and 1963, and Louvin released another dozen hits as a solo performer. And the Louvin influence (which also includes the 1960 album "Satan is Real," featuring a cover depicting the brothers in the devil's lair) has been felt deep and... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Lee Hazlewood, 78, musician Aug 22, 2007
In addition, he produced for Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons as well as performed on a number of solo albums and with Nancy Sinatra in three "Nancy albums.Hazlewood was diagnosed with renal cancer in 2005 and released his final album, "Cake or Death" in 2006.Born Barton Lee Hazlewood in Mannford, Okla., he grew up in Port Neches, Texas, where he picked up a love of music and lyrics. Later he studied medicine at Southern Methodist U., was drafted by the Army and served in Korea. After his discharge,... (Variety)
If a guitarist plays in the woods ... Aug 20, 2007
His own songs are very much in the quintessential singer-songwriter tradition of Neil Young, Gram Parsons and Jackson Browne, all of whom he cites as major inspirations. In philosophy, you have to learn the literature first there's no shortcut and I think that's true in music, too, Bolland, 49, said. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Tinkerer, Tailor, Ditherer, Sailor Aug 8, 2007
And with a Gram Parsons twang and stately processional beat, Low's Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker assist in bringing the album to ground safely on closer "What's Up Freaks?". By relinquishing autonomy over his band, Broder has actually achieved a new level of control over those wild ideas that beg to be heard but refuse to perform in conventional song-ish ways. (City Pages)
Singer songwriter Hazlewood dies Aug 7, 2007
He also produced Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons, while a number of solo albums brought him acclaim in his own right. He died peacefully at his home near Las Vegas, his manager said. (BBC News -- Americas)
READ MORE > Aug 7, 2007
Sioux City Journal: Songwriter Lee Hazlewood, hitmaker for Nancy Sinatra, dies. August 07, 2007 ONLINE EDITION. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Obituaries in the News Aug 7, 2007
He also produced Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons, and performed on a number of solo albums and with Nancy Sinatra in three ``Nancy albums. Hazlewood was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2005 and released his final album, ``Cake or Death'' in 2006. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Cult heroThe influential life of crooner and composer Lee Hazlewood Aug 7, 2007
He was a charismatic and influential performer who produced acts like Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons ... Another collaboration, with Gram Parsons' short-lived International Submarine Band, produced the groundbreaking Safe at Home album, today widely regarded as the first blooming of country rock. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
U.S. singer, songwriter Hazlewood dies at 78 Aug 7, 2007
Hazlewood also produced for Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons, and performed on a number of solo albums and with Nancy Sinatra in three "Nancy & Lee" albums. "We recorded it on the 13th and we had 13 musicians and when it went to No. 1, Barton bought watches for everybody who played on the date with only the number 13 on them," Sinatra recalled, using Hazlewood's first given name. (Xinhuanet, China)
Get back to where we once belonged... Jul 30, 2007
I've watched film I never knew existed of the legendary country rocker, Gram Parsons, and the Greenwich village folkie, Karen Dalton ... Ultra-rare footage of the late Gram Parsons, country-rock pioneer and legend. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Why I swapped the Clash for Chopin Jul 22, 2007
His heroes were Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, Gene Vincent. Unlike me, he ended up, for a while, playing guitar in the Popes, the band Shane McGowan formed after he left the Pogues. (Guardian Unlimited)
Too much Doobie Brothers? Jul 7, 2007
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Good time for a win? Jul 5, 2007
To quote the late great Gram Parsons loosely Could a been a funeral,it was a bad, bad day. Today wasn t the bad day it was a few days ago when our elected president commuted the sentence of the scapegoat for the treasonous members of his staff who outed a covert CIA agent. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Coming attractions: Ron Howard plans trip to the 'Moon' Jun 29, 2007
Titled Gram Parsons Archive Volume 1, after the Burritos' legendary leader, the album is taken from three shows in San Francisco in which the group opened for the Grateful Dead. The tapes had languished in the Dead's copious vaults and contain, according to Amoeba co-founder Dave Prinz, high-quality versions of a number of classic country and rock 'n' roll songs (covers of Hank Williams, the Everly Bros. (USA Today -- Life)
Full Story from Daily Texan Jun 26, 2007
For all the perfection of this debut, it would seem the singer-songwriter had been twiddling his thumbs up to this point, but the electrifying debut so captured the sensation of a lonely poet growing up in the new South as to channel the inimitable Gram Parsons himself. Adams followed "Heartbreaker" with the more commercially accessible, but no less interesting, "Gold." He then ventured into new territories with the soul-crushing ballads of the two "Love is Hell" EPs (featuring the brilliant... (U-Wire.com)
Take me to the river Jun 16, 2007
In 1991 he helped introduce Americans to forro with his Luaka Bop compilation "Brazil Classics 3." "They are liberating the genre in the same way that Gram Parsons , Lucinda Williams , and others liberated country music. They aim to hijack the spirit and make it relevant and new.". Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe -- Living)
The subtle radical Jun 15, 2007
Keith Richards, Love Hurts : Recorded at a 2004 all-star tribute to the late country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons, this classic song of emotional longing was not written by Parsons ... It's available only on the live DVD, Return to Sin City a Tribute to Gram Parsons ... When I got to do the Gram Parsons thing I knew Keith was very cool, but I was still excited. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Emmylou Harris Prepping Boxed Set, New Album... Jun 2, 2007
The second two discs boast numerous tracks Harris has recorded for tribute albums to such acts as Gram Parsons, Merle Haggard and Townes Van Zandt, as well as the original demo for "All I Left Behind" with Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Harris put her next studio effort on hold to finish the boxed set, but is making progress on a new Nonesuch album with assistance from the McGarrigle sisters and Seldom Scene lead singer John Starling. (Billboard.com)
Re-meet the Remains May 13, 2007
In California, Tashian and Briggs were part of the original Flying Burrito Brothers, who were eventually taken over by their friend Gram Parsons. Tashian went on to play for Parsons's protege Emmylou Harris, before embarking on a successful career in bluegrass with his wife, Holly. (Boston Globe)
Amy gets her Mojo back May 10, 2007
The Mojo Catalogue Release of the Year Gram Parsons, The Complete Reprise Sessions Fairport Convention, Live At The BBC Various, Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra Records 1963-1973 Johnny Cash At San Quentin 1969 Karen Dalton, In My Own Time Various, The Complete Motown Singles Vol 6 1966. The Mojo Vision Award Nirvana, Live. (Metro)
David O'Brien's beat blog Apr 30, 2007
STILL FEELING BLUE by Gram Parsons. Time can pass and time can heal/But it don t ever pass the way I feel. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Pam Tillis returns to the country fringe Apr 15, 2007
Rather, it's something like the country she listened to when she was young -- Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons , Don Williams, Neil Young, and the like -- music that was on the fringes of the mainstream of the day. The music on "Rhinestoned" -- "Over My Head," which starts acoustic country and veers Celtic via pennywhistle and mandolin, the two-stepping "Band in the Window," the wry talking-blues story-song "Bettin' Money on Love" -- doesn't reprise the sound of those predecessors so much as their... (Boston Globe)
