Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country RockBob Kealing
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Selected as one of the best books of the year by: " Uprooted Music Revue"" Engine 145"" Uncut" "" Calling Me Home" is about just that: a land that always beckons, that underlies most of Gram's songwriting, . . . a land that informs not only him but all others with whom he associated and learned from him. "-" Gram Inter National" " Takes the reader from the present to the past and back again, conveying a vivid document of Gram Parsons's life and career, as well as those who played essential roles in the country-rock pioneer's journey. There are lots of surprises along the way. "-Holly George-Warren, author of " Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry" " Has a great narrative velocity. Even though we know how this story is going to end-tragically, of course-Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons through his short, rich life. "-William Mc Keen, author of " Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson" " I could almost hear the music coming from those now-dilapidated buildings where Gram Parsons received his musical education. Bob Kealing makes them come alive as he explores the faces and places that turned Parsons from a southern-bred trust fund child into a self-destructive yet visionary musical pioneer. "-Jeffrey M. Lemlich, author of " Savage Lost: Florida Garage Bands: The '60s and Beyond" On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua Tree Inn at the age of twenty-six and the failed attempt to steal his body and burn it in the desert-but not in this literary journey. Known as the father of country rock, Parsons played with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. In the late 1960s and early '70s, he was a key confidante of Keith Richards
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