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Calling Me Home - Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock (Paperback)
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Calling Me Home - Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 890
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On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another
rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men
wore their dangerous habits like badges of honour. Unfortunately,
his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid
fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua Tree desert at the
age of twenty-six. Known as the father of country rock, Parsons
played with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, and the
Flying Burrito Brothers. In the late 1960s and early 70s, he was a
key confidante of Keith Richards. In 1972, he gave Emmylou Harris
her first big break. When Tom Petty re-formed his Florida garage
band Mudcrutch, he invoked the name of Gram Parsons as an
inspiration. Musicians as diverse as Elvis Costello, Dwight Yoakam,
Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, and Steve Earle have also paid homage to
alt-country's patron saint. In Calling Me Home, Kealing traces the
entire arc of Parsons's career, emphasising his Southern roots.
Drawing on dozens of new interviews as well as rare letters and
photographs provided by Parsons's family and legendary
photojournalist Ted Polumbaum, Kealing has uncovered facts that
even the most stalwart Parsons fans will find revealing. Travelling
from Parsons' boyhood home in Waycross, Georgia, to the southern
folk mecca of Coconut Grove, Florida, from the birthplace of outlaw
country in Austin, Texas, to the Ryman auditorium in Nashville,
Tennessee Kealing celebrates Parsons's timeless and transformative
musical legacy.
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