Gram Parsons was a pioneering figure in the country rock genre, blending traditional country with rock music in different ways. He was a key member of bands such as The Byrds and The Flying Burrito ...

Singer Gram Parsons was born on Nov. 5, 1946. He died on Sept. 19, 1973. Of this there is no doubt. But just about everything that occurred in Parsons’ brief life between those two dates is open to ...

Gram flew free and easy in mid-1960s L.A., flocking to the Byrds with the seeds of 1968’s seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo, which featured veteran Nashville sidemen such as Earl Poole Ball and John ...

Gram Parsons is alive and well and living in Cleveland's Gordon Square neighborhood. Or at least his music is. The songs of the late country-rock pioneer have found a new home at the Happy Dog on ...

Gram Parsons’ only child, Polly Parsons, is no stranger to her father’s ghost. She’s been known to take occasional trips out to the desert to the Joshua Tree Inn to stay in Room 8 — where her father ...

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 ...

There's only so much Phil Kaufman will say about Gram Parsons these days. But 40 years ago, the man with a reputation as a rock star wrangler/road manager was among Parsons' inner circle of friends.

Gram Parsons often is referred to as the father of country-rock. The musician who pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music in the late 1960s and early ‘70s may not have sold many ...

This story was originally published September 2013, on the 40th anniversary of his death in Joshua Tree. "He's dead." There's only so much Phil Kaufman will say about Gram Parsons these days. But 40 ...