Seventy-nine years ago today, one of the most important artists in alternative country history was born in Florida.

Emmylou Harris was an unknown singer in her early twenties when Gram Parsons saw her perform at a folk club in Washington, D.C. in 1971. "I was knocked out by her singing," he said later. He recruited ...

In years of putting on the annual Sleepless Nights tribute concerts to Gram Parsons, the event's founder, Eric Shea, has watched countless local acts rummage through the deepest corners of the late ...

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) ...

His father committed suicide. His mother drank herself to death. So did his stepfather. And his sister spent time in a mental institution. Is it any wonder Gram Parsons himself succumbed to a mix of ...

Gram Parsons’ story is an unfortunate but not uncommon one; cut down in his prime (he was only 26 when he died of a drug overdose in 1973), some say he all but single-handedly pioneered the fusion ...

The human impulse is to categorize, to sort and to label collections of things we imagine have something in common. When we encounter something new we tend to think it is like this or not like that.

“We were spinning our wheels, to use Roger [McGuinn]’s phrase, and here comes Gram,” says Chris Hillman, The Byrds original bassist, who grew up playing bluegrass and folk music, and only became a ...

Quoting from the lyrics of “Before They Make Me Run,” a song from the Rolling Stones’ 1978 album, “Some Girls,” Stones guitarist Keith Richards remarked, “Another goodbye to another good friend,” as ...