Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons And The Roots Of Country Rock

By Bob Kealing Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock is not a typical biography. It’s the story of author Bob Kealing’s search, four decades after the singer’s death, for information and interviews. Thus, this book includes primary source material not available in the five previous biographies on Parsons: how Gram […]

Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 10 April 2013

Faron and Marty 54 years ago On April 7, 1959, Faron Young returned from a Hawaiian tour. His band, the Country Deputies, traveled there with him, as did his wife, Hilda. Other entertainers were Webb Pierce and Roy Drusky. Also on April 7, 1959, Marty Robbins, in an 8-hour session in Nashville, recorded all twelve tracks […]