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Nine from '09: The year's best songs
... whole generations of musicians playing what can broadly be defined as 'Americana' have been influenced by Gram Parsons. It's always been easy to hear the country in Parsons' body of work. But Parsons called what he was doing 'Cosmic American Music.' ... Comment?
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... played piano, guitar, cello and tuba and sang at the top of their lungs. Their parents sang as a duo covering Gram Parsons and Ronstadt songs at local bars and restaurants and many musicians, including Slim Dusty's band, came over to jam. They all ... Comment?
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Dawes Plays Muddy Waters
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... You Let Me Be Your Anchor" and "Take Me Out of the City" immediately call to mind the slow, shimmering songs of Gram Parsons, while tracks like "Give Me Time" embrace a sound closer to The Byrds' twangy, building folk rock. It also stands to mention ... Comment?
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Two Tons of Steel, Eleven Hundred Springs, Doug Moreland
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... ion-conscious for their own good, Two Tons of Steel straddle the unprofitable but artistically potent line that Gram Parsons thankfully walked over three decades ago. Comment?
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Butch Walker Readies 'I Liked It Better...'
... reflects a broad swath of Walker's favorite music including the country-tinged work of songwriters like Gram Parsons and Kris Kristofferson, and the gold-standard '70s pop of ELO and T. Rex. Butch Walker recently completed sold-out, multi-evening ... Comment?
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... Simon and Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ray Charles, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Cher, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Norah Jones. Just a few of the classic hits they wrote ... Comment?
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... Simon and Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ray Charles, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Cher, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Norah Jones. Just a few of the classic hits they wrote ... Comment?
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Sound Check: When it comes to musical gifts this season,...
... the honky-tonk side of their musical personality with a couple of rollicking, twang-infused numbers including Gram Parsons ' "Blue Eyes." Pittman himself teamed with singer Gina Dalmas on the Robbie Fulks tune "You Shouldn't Have" and Come in ... Comment?
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Father and Child Reunion
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... records. It wasn't until his late teens that he finally began to gravitate toward country-folk artists like Gram Parsons and Neil Young. Those later influences are all over his self-titled debut, a beauty of a record that alternates between hushed ... Comment?
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Jim Stafford, plus Pete Gallagher and Raiford Starke
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WMNF's Florida Folk Show presents the return of the Florida-born and raised singer-songwriter-comedian Jim Stafford - he was raised in Winter Haven and in high school, he played in a band along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie and Gram Parsons . Comment?
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John Howie's rosy return to the stage
... Pistols reveled in its debt to Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner, the Rosewood Bluff revels in its debt to Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers. More Bakersfield than Nashville, Howie's latest project shouldn't put off anybody who is familiar ... Comment?
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First Hampton Hayride went off without a hitch
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... the honky-tonk side of their musical personality with a couple of rollicking, twang-infused numbers including Gram Parsons' "Blue Eyes." Pittman himself teamed with singer Gina Dalmas on the Robbie Fulks tune "You Shouldn't Have" and Come in Tokyo's ... Comment?
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... "Sweet Tooth," would sound at home on one of Welch's records, but it's the only song that would: traces of Gram Parsons are audible on "Ruby," there's a bit of Nashville Skyline -era Dylan in "Bells of Harlem," and "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to ... Comment?
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Lonesome, lovely, lesser-known park
... I first heard of this eerie expanse of cactus-studded desert and mountains in 1973, after the strange death of Gram Parsons, a singer-songwriter who was a member of the Byrds and a pioneer of country-rock music. Parsons, who may be best known for ... Comment?
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Late Nite Music Club with the Rolling Stones
... Vain was such a beautiful song. Mick and I both loved it, and at the time I was working and playing around with Gram Parsons, and I started searching around for a different way to present it, because if we were going to record it there was no point ... Comment?
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... on such Byrds gems as "Younger Than Yesterday" and "The Notorious Byrds Brothers." In 1968, Hillman brought Gram Parsons into the Byrds for their pioneering country rock album "Sweeheart of the Rodeo." Hillman turned in by far the sweetest vocal on ... Comment?
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... into this effort from Monica Taylor - produced masterfully by Jared Tyler - like the out-of-nowhere cover of Gram Parsons' "She." The ballads, folk tunes and country ramblers all hang on Taylor's remarkable singing. "You can feel her voice. It's ... Comment?
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... personality through the country comedy show #Hee Haw. Nevertheless, several generations of musicians -- from Gram Parsons in the late '60s to Dwight Yoakam in the '80s -- were influenced by his music, which wound up being one of the blueprints for ... Comment?
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Great American Taxi To Release Reckless Habits On 03/02
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... flattering. "We're definitely connected to all the acts in the country/rock spectrum, as well as the spirit of Gram Parsons and Woody Guthrie," he says. "We want to address the issues appropriate to our times, while making music that gets people up ... Comment?
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Great American Taxi with Leftover Salmon Frontman Vince Herman Plans 2010 Album
... flattering. "We're definitely connected to all the acts in the country/rock spectrum, as well as the spirit of Gram Parsons and Woody Guthrie," he says. "We want to address the issues appropriate to our times, while making music that gets people up ... Comment?
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