Artist: Gram Parsons
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers – Archives Volume One: Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969
Columbia Records boss Walter Yetnikoff once struggled to explain to Leonard Cohen the label’s problem with the singer: “We know you’re great…but we don’t know if you’re any good.” We may ask ourselves the same about Gram Parsons: At this point, it’s well established that Gram was great, but was he any good? It’s now [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Gram Parsons – The Complete Reprise Sessions
Gram Parsons belongs to a few exclusive clubs in the pantheon of popular music. One, sadly, is Those Who Died Young, the rolls of which are dotted notably with names like Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Holly and Redding. Another, with a much shorter list of members, might best be called the Inverse Proportionists. An oft-told anecdote [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Gram Parsons Tribute – Universal Amphitheatre (Universal City, CA)
Why a Gram Parsons tribute concert now? Good question. There was no real specific reason for such a lofty event — no anniversary of his birth or notorious death to wrap a big to-do around, and it could hardly be the result of a deprivation of tributes to, arguably, the inventor of country-rock. Not only [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Gram Parsons – Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology
Except for a brief period in the early ’80s, when I now believe I was trying so hard I put a clothespin over my crap detector, I never really “got” Gram Parsons as a country artist. And as a country-rock harbinger, he definitely institutionalized some of the worst attributes of bands that followed in his [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Gram Parsons – Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons 1965-1966
Gram Parsons gets heavy credit as one of the pioneers and true talents of country rock. In the 27 years since his death, no one has matched the beautiful fragility of his voice or his novelistic sense of country songwriting (i.e., “$1000 Wedding”). Though Parsons may not have been an overly prolific writer, the few [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Gram Parsons Tribute – Sessions At West 54th (New York City. NY)
Billed as “Emmylou Harris, the Mavericks and more,” this taping for the PBS series “Sessions At West 54th” promised a considerable range of possibilities as to who “more” would be. Waiting in line to get in, it seemed everyone either thought they knew or had their own wish list. Clearly the special guests would be [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Gram Parsons – A long-lost soul for a long, long time
If Gram Parsons knew when he scribbled those words in a 1972 letter that 21 years later country music’s biggest stars would record a best-selling tribute album to the Eagles, he probably would have been aghast. Though his oft-stated desire was to introduce pure, unadulterated country to rock audiences, Parsons inadvertently helped bring California rock [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Gram Parsons – Under Your Spell Again
The brevity of Gram Parsons’ life inherently magnifies the importance of any documents that can inform our understanding of his talent. Though the official Parsons canon contains more than enough to justify his stature, it’s a meager catalogue compared to other legends who stuck around this mortal coil a good while longer. As such, it’s [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Maps and Legends of Joshua Tree
(Editor’s note: Former Jayhawks co-leader Mark Olson and his wife, singer-songwriter Victoria Williams, moved a few years ago to Joshua Tree, California, where Gram Parsons died in September 1973 (his casket was set afire there a few days later, after being heisted by friends on the way to burial in Louisiana). We asked Olson if [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels – Live 1973
Originally released on vinyl by Sierra Records in 1982 and again in 1988 on CD, this third turn on reissue giant Rhino Records of a Gram Parsons radio show in Hempstead, Long Island, offers something special for both the hardcore Parsons fan and the newcomer. The songs are also presented in their original order, but [...]
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