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Happy Birthday Gram Parsons

November 5th 2009 in Americana, In memoriam, Legends, alt.country

On this day was born in Winter Haven, Florida, 1946 the man that would, with his bands – International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, fuse the genres of country and rock and roll and change the landscape of both forever.

Gram Parsons was also pivotal in introducing Emmylou Harris, then a single-mother and folk singer working in coffee houses outside Washington, D.C., to country music and her to the world.

Gram Parsons certainly earned his place in music history within his short life (he died of a drug overdose at the age of 26 in a hotel room in Joshua Tree, California) and certainly blongs in the Country Music Hall of Fame , alongside one of 2008′s inductees Emmylou Harris.

3 comments to...
“Happy Birthday Gram Parsons”

Austin
wrote on November 6th, 2009

Happy Birthday Graham! Thank you for the music!

Vagabond
wrote on November 6th, 2009

Thanks Twang Nation…we need to recognize Gram more. Happy Bday GP, hope ur singing in heaven.

northern rebel
wrote on December 4th, 2009

thx for the reminder……i listen to gram regularly….30 yrs later…..thats a good measure of quality…if he was with us, i would say “thanks, please sing Hickory Wind”

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