Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons: the father of country rock lives again (Jul 1999)

Gram Parsons walked down 20,000 roads and has come straight back home to you. When the 26 year-old musical boy wonder died so many years ago, few could have predicted his efforts then would still have a bearing on rock n' roll and country music. After all, this would-be cosmic cowboy and father of country rock achieved notoriety by bringing out a then-unknown Emmylou Harris to sing backup vocals, while trotting out songs like "Streets Of Baltimore" by Tompall Glaser and Harlan Howard or "I  ...