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Rock's "Grievous Angel"
Singer and songwriter Gram Parsons infused country sounds into rock during the 1960s and early ‘70s, both as a solo artist and a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers, the International Submarine Band and The Byrds. (Some credit Parsons with the countrified sounds on the Rolling Stones’ "Exile on Main Street.") We talk with David N. Meyer, author of the a new Parsons biography, Twenty Thousand Roads.
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music on Amazon
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There were a few Hank Williams songs on the famous juke box at Chumley's, I have read.
People would flip out when John Coltrane would play them with regularity(!)
California in the 30s-60s was chock full of refugee families from the Dust Bowl and the impoverished South.
Especially in rural areas, it was a HUGE haven of country and rock-a-billy.
Right on the front of David Meyer's website twentythousandroads.com, there's a link to our petition to induct Gram Parsons into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Or jut go to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/531164998
or Google Gram Parsons petition. Listen to David's interview, and you'll understand why Gram should be in the Hall. Thanks, Will
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