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CD review - The album as a whole is a meditation on just how far apart two lovers can drift. It's washed in space and light, under the weight of which Matthew Houck's voice crumbles effortlessly, broken and beautiful.

Back in October, seven regionally known bands, duos and individual artists took the stage at the Narrows Center for the Arts to pay tribute to the music of Gram Parsons, who died in 1973 at 26 but whose work has had a tremendous impact on the genres of...

Back in October, seven regionally known bands, duos and individual artists took the stage at the Narrows Center for the Arts to pay tribute to the music of Gram Parsons, who died in 1973 at 26 but whose work has had a tremendous impact on the genres of...

4/1/2013 - The spirit of the late Gram Parsons was in full effect Monday night when Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell hit the Belk Theater stage in Charlotte and launched into a one-two punch of Parsons' Cosmic American Music with sharp, note-for-note renditions of a pair of his classic duets with Harris, "Grievous Angel" and "Wheels." The reunion of Harris with Crowell has been a long time coming. They ...

Gram Parsons has been dead since 1973, so we're all 40 years late to the party of seeing Emmylou Harris sing with her ideal duet partner.

Emmylou Harris' first solo album, "Pieces of the Sky," was released in 1975 after the death of her singing partner, Gram Parsons . The opening track on the album is a song called "Bluebird Wine," by a then-unknown songwriter named Rodney Crowell. She recorded two more of his songs on her next album, got him to join her band in the mid-'70s and now, after an almost 40-year friendship, the two ...

NEW YORK CITY -- When Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell 's creative partnership began back in 1974, the death of Harris's previous singing partner, country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons , was still a fairly fresh wound.

Gram Parsons has been dead since 1973, so we're all 40 years late to the party of seeing Emmylou Harris sing with her ideal duet partner.

It has been a long time since anyone has had the chance to hear Gram Parsons perform in Winter Haven, the city where he spent his youth. Parsons, who died in 1973 at age 26, will make a musical appearance of sorts Saturday as part of a presentation by Bob Kealing, author of the book "Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock."

It has been a long time since anyone has had the chance to hear Gram Parsons perform in Winter Haven, the city where he spent his youth. Parsons, who died in 1973 at age 26, will make a musical appearance of sorts Saturday as part of a presentation by Bob Kealing, author of the book "Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock."

When Bob Kealing met Margaret Fisher to talk about her relationship with legendary country-rock singer Gram Parsons , it was sort of a moment of epiphany. Kealing was working on a book about the legendary singer who never found the success he thirsted for until after his tragic death in 1973, and he could tell that Fisher had become weary of telling the same story over and over. “At one point, we ...