Roger McGuinn certainly didn’t rule The Byrds with an iron fist. Arthritic butterflies have had a firmer grip, and he let ...

Gram Parsons died on Sept. 19, 1973, bringing an end to the short, turbulent life of one of country music’s most gifted artists. But the craziness was just beginning. Parsons is remembered as one of ...

Few of the guitars that belonged to country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons are around today. Much like the man himself — who died of a morphine-and-tequila overdose in 1973 at the age of 26 — his ...

"He [Gram Parsons] taught me how to play it, and I went and practiced it and practiced it and went out and cut it," recalled Peter Fonda.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Rivkin, known better now as producer David Z, is a Minneapolis-native. At the start of the 1970s, Rivkin traveled across the ...

It’s one of the defining songs of Gram Parsons’ all-too-brief solo career. “How Much I’ve Lied” tied into Parsons’ artistic image of a ne’er-do-well with a heart of gold, perhaps as well as any song ...

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 ...

A twisted, musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen ...

Gram Parsons came by his country music naturally. Born Ingram Cecil Connor III in Florida on Nov. 5, 1946, he was raised in Georgia by a wealthy orange-growing family. Young Gram, whose name changed ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday night, a band that began as a fun excuse to play the music of singer-songwriter-guitarist Gram Parsons celebrates 16 years of monthly residencies and their eponymously ...