...to Ed that I would have liked to have seen certain songs, styles and acts represented. My list included Stax soul, Gram Parsons, Big Star, the Byrds, Cheap Trick and something that took advantage of the Revue 's horn section -- perhaps Chicago...
...King 9 Neil Diamond 8 Stevie Ray Vaughan 7 Cheap Trick 6 The Commodores 5 Jimmy Buffett 4 Roxy Music 3 Albert King 2 Gram Parsons 1 Quincy Jones DVD HAIKU 'District 9' Sci-fi metaphor for South African unrest drenched in spaceman goo.
...with the Blowfish. "It's who I am and where I am as an artist," he said. "I love all that California country - Gram Parsons and Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield stuff. But I also love Brad Paisley. I wanted to make a record I would listen...
...that defined Mr. Krueger's earlier work, opting instead for country-tinged tunes. Think less Ray Davies, more Gram Parsons. The songs are catchy and packed with complex lyrical metaphor and honest emotion. That's the good news. The bad...
...own. There were times when Mr. Nickel would turn a simple phrase and chord change so beautifully that comparisons to Gram Parsons and Neil Young became easy. There were others when it felt like he was trying too hard, stuck in a rut of emulating...
...Gypsy Biker generated particularly passionate debate, with the web consensus settling on Pat Tillman, Dick Cheney, Gram Parsons - even Jerry Seinfeld. Now in the fourth decade of his career, Mr. Springsteen still inspires the sort of fanaticism...
...8, New Orleans' Honey Island Swamp Band brings us its "Bayou Americana" sound -- think Little Feat, The Band, Gram Parsons.LEARN MORE: (706) 736-1221, www.honeyislandswampband.comLISTEN UP: Listen to clips from Chocolate Cake...
...recording from the brief period that alt-country pioneer Gram Parsons played with the California band. A commercial bomb...with a laugh. "I'm ready to spread the gospel of Gram Parsons all day long." Reach Steven Uhles at (706) 823-3626...
...Blind Pig, and it closed." Although Mr. Davis grew up in Camden listening to such classic rock acts as The Beatles, Gram Parsons and The Allman Brothers, he equally loves country acts such as Lyle Lovett and Hal Ketchum. Mr. Davis often is described...
...role was the little-seen and critically trashed dark comedy "Grand Theft Parsons" from 2003. Knoxville stars as Gram Parsons' road manager, Phil Kaufman, who steals the singer-songwriter's body to set it ablaze in Joshua Tree National...
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