Gram Parsons News

1973 - Phil Kaufman, manager for singer Gram Parsons, was fined $300 for stealing Parsons' body from the Los Angeles International Airport.

The music and life story of rock-country pioneer Gram Parsons is the focus of a new theatrical project in Ottawa.

In a celebrity-obsessed world, the celebrities we obsess over the most are those tragic rock icons who blazed a trail but died way too young -- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, Kurt Cobain.

Once there was a time when fast living was what killed rock stars. These days they also drop from things like heart attacks and cancer.

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Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:19 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:19 a.m. Ronnie Smith, singer of the group Deepwell, was leading his band at a Gram Parsons tribute concert in Waycross, Ga., when something caught his eye - a man who had come to the front of the stage appeared to be especially enjoying the song they were ...

Beauty is not always a simple thing. Emmylou Harris is a creature of silver-haired elegance who backs her many notable musician friends with haunting harmonies.

Mark Mandeville singer/songwriter, The Accident That Led Me To The World What's in Mandeville's record collection : 1. ' I Saw Across The Sound ' , by The Points North 2. ' Teaser & The Firecat ' , Cat Stevens 3. ' Great Speeches of the 20th Century Vol.

Matt Brooke, with Grand Archives, at Showbox SoDo. In her short, no-star preview of Grand Archives' set tonight at NYC's Southpaw, Amanda Petrusich says "Grand Archives plays sweet, docile country-rock in the tradition of Gram Parsons or, more recently, Beachwood Sparks." In her next breath, Petrusich says that Hanson, "has evolved into a nuanced ...

Brandi Carlile is a woman out of time. She's no revivalist - four years into her recording career, her albums owe as much to early Radiohead as they do Johnny Cash.

As musical lives go, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen have lived some of the richest.

At times delivering groovy, breezy Americana folk and at others drifting into psychedelic power pop, The Mother Hips have demonstrated time and time again that they're the evolutionary musical descendents of the likes of Gram Parsons and The Band - but without ever sounding antiquated.

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen perform Friday at 8 p.m. at Kirk Avenue Music Hall.

Oct 04, 2009 at 12:00 AM Sun. Oct. 4 The New Riders of the Purple Sage ride again.

His sound was far from conventional, and his voice was anything but pristine. And most would agree that his background as the progeny of an affluent Florida citrus magnate was hardly typical for a country-music star.

Who knows what the weather will be like by the time you're reading this, but right now there's a chill in the air.

Seattle's folk revival has sparked a heated ballyhoo about what exactly makes you country enough to play country music.

According to the Associated Press, fellow country star Reba McEntire is hoping that Shania Twain's recent peeks back into the spotlight signal a full-fledged return.

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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight's musical selection is a two-song medley from Gram Parsons' posthumously-released 1974 album Grievous Angel .