The Legend That Is Gram Parsons
If you like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles you should tip your hat to Gram...
September 19, 1973
It was 51 years-ago today that the incredibly influential Gram Parsons, a 26-year-old folk and country-rock pioneer, died of a drug overdose in Room Eight of the Joshua Tree Inn, located just outside the Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. Never well-known by the general public during his lifetime, Parsons’ music nonethel…
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