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I’m an asshole.
I just discovered Gram Parsons. Wow. Fucking, wow.
I have no idea how he wasn’t more famous in his time. He invented a genre (Alt-Country/Country Rock/Cosmic American Music), was friends with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, wrote INCREDIBLE songs and possesed the charisma and talent to be a major performer.
Unfortunately, the dude was super self-destructive. A trust-fund child born into one of the richest families in the south, who went to Harvard and dropped out, and died at 26 after taking enough Morphine to kill 3 people - in and among all that shitty stuff, he wrote some fantastic songs, which you can only be appreciated if you start thumbing through his catalogue pronto (check out anything by the Flying Burrito Brothers or Gram Parsons).
He’s the man. Watch how he introduces the first singer - a back turn , flashing the red cross on his back, and an extended arm - “here we come”
A poet, songsmith and badass.
- Leo Showbiz
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