Roger McGuinn certainly didn’t rule The Byrds with an iron fist. Arthritic butterflies have had a firmer grip, and he let ...

Gram Parsons died on Sept. 19, 1973, bringing an end to the short, turbulent life of one of country music’s most gifted artists. But the craziness was just beginning. Parsons is remembered as one of ...

Few of the guitars that belonged to country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons are around today. Much like the man himself — who died of a morphine-and-tequila overdose in 1973 at the age of 26 — his ...

It’s one of the defining songs of Gram Parsons’ all-too-brief solo career. “How Much I’ve Lied” tied into Parsons’ artistic image of a ne’er-do-well with a heart of gold, perhaps as well as any song ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Rivkin, known better now as producer David Z, is a Minneapolis-native. At the start of the 1970s, Rivkin traveled across the ...

Gram Parsons didn’t have a long career, but his impact on music was immense. During this short period, he managed to reshape country rock as a genre. Additionally, he had one of the strangest journeys ...

From the jangle of Laurel Canyon to the grit of the Texas plains, here are the 21 definitive country-rock masterpieces ...

The myth of Gram Parsons as father of country rock (and thus mainstream country music of the mid-1980s and Americana today) stretches the truth so far that it obscures the contributions of myriad ...

A twisted, musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen ...