Sometime after Parsons left the International Submarine Band, then Byrds-bassist Chris Hillman convinced McGuinn that Parsons should become a member of The Byrds, who had fired David Crosby and ...

Love hurts, and so, if you’re a Gram Parsons fan, does the idea that the world has had to do without him for 50 years, as of September of this year. Imagining how his style might have changed ...

Parsons shares the spotlight with his fellow former Byrd Chris Hillman — and the blazing pedal steel of “Sneaky Pete” Kleinow — on this foot-stomping leadoff tune from the Flying Burrito ...

Parsons died of an overdose in 1973 at the age of 26, and in his brief sojourn he essentially conjured the pervasively influential wellspring of country rock and its various tributaries as the ...

Gram Parsons' daughter, Polly Parsons, and Amoeba's Dave Prinz tell how a concert tape got found, lost, and found again for Record Store Day release.

For Black Friday's Record Store Day, Amoeba Music is releasing a live Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris album, recorded just months before his death in 1973.

Gram Parsons’ time on earth was brief but impactful. In his 26 years, Parsons was a gifted singer-songwriter who helped pioneer psychedelic rock through his work with the Byrds and other bands ...

Singer-songwriter Gram Parsons and drummer Kevin Kelley, the other two official members of the Byrds at the time, have both died.

The rock legend looks back on the venerable band’s influential catalogue and his relationships with Gram Parsons and David Crosby.

But Parsons is probably best known for his short stint with the seminal '60s folk-rock group The Byrds, during which he shifted the band's sound to country.