Tag Archives: Gram Parsons
Ranking Records: Gram Parsons
Here I look at the recording career of one of my favorite artists of all-time, the late great Gram Parsons. “GP” helped launch the Country Rock movement with what he called “Cosmic American Music.” I will walk through his early days with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brother and his solo […]
The Long Players perform The Byrds’ “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” @ Mercy Lounge / Nashville TN / March 25, 2017
Nashville’s Long Players have now artfully recreated the grooves from about 60 different classic rock records. But, like band leader Bill Lloyd said from the Mercy Lounge stage, “It was about time we did a country record in Nashville.” Their choice was The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the mostly-overlooked at the time, but now-considered […]
