Seventy-nine years ago today, one of the most important artists in alternative country history was born in Florida.

Some of Emmylou Harris' most personal songs, including "Boulder to Birmingham", are memorials to this late country music icon.

Of the many premature deaths from the wave of great ‘60s musicians, Gram Parsons is one of the most tragic. A deeply gifted singer and songwriter, he’s universally (if not entirely accurately) ...

Nov. 12—I sometimes imagine a music buff hearing these lines from a David Allen Coe song for the first time and doing a double take while pondering their meaning: "I heard the burritos out in ...

Singer/songwriter Gram Parsons wears a Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels T-shirt at a party in the park in June 1973 in Los Angeles Credit: (Photo by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ...

Love hurts, and so, if you’re a Gram Parsons fan, does the idea that the world has had to do without him for 50 years, as of September of this year. Imagining how his style might have changed over the ...

Q: Prior to the release of the Byrds’ “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album, Gram Parsons’ vocals were replaced by Roger McGuinn for legal reasons. Were the original songs with Parsons’ vocals ever released ...

The final encore of a tribute concert for late alt-country pioneer Gram Parsons was a near-perfect rock 'n' roll moment, when what could become a train wreck instead becomes something beautiful; in a ...

If anything, Another Side Of This Life, a collection of previously unreleased Gram Parsons recordings, only further mythologizes the man revered as the godfather of country rock. Though the sound of ...

Cleveland’s the New Soft Shoe, a group that covers tunes by the late, great singer-songwriter Gram Parsons, will celebrate its 13-year anniversary with an album tribute and special guests when it ...

On Sept. 18, 1973, drinking heavily, Parsons took a fatally high dose of morphine and died in that very room. When he arrived at the hospital early on Sept. 19, 1973, he was declared dead on arrival.

When it comes to the gospel of Gram Parsons, David Prinz is a true believer. The co-owner of Amoeba Records came under the spell of the pervasively influential musician when he happened to hear the ...