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Gram Parsons Emerges From the Lost and Found: How a Great, Misplaced 1973 Concert Tape Became One of the Record Store Day Hits of 2023

November 27, 2023

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 subsequent half-century is never-ending, as is conjecturing how he might have simply have brought the […]

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris Ride Again on ‘The Last Roundup,’ a Stunning New Archival Concert Recording: Album Review

November 20, 2023

Of the many premature deaths from the wave of great ‘60s musicians, Gram Parsons is one of the most tragic. A deeply gifted singer and songwriter, he’s universally (if not entirely accurately) regarded as the patron saint of Americana music. His pioneering fusions of the then-polarized genres of rock and country survive in just a […]