Seventy-nine years ago today, one of the most important artists in alternative country history was born in Florida.

Nov. 12—I sometimes imagine a music buff hearing these lines from a David Allen Coe song for the first time and doing a double take while pondering their meaning: "I heard the burritos out in ...

On board as the bassist when the Byrds first took flight and beside Gram Parsons with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman is the Forrest Gump of country rock. Who: Folk-rock icon and longtime ...

When you think about the origins of country rock, a few names come to mind: the Byrds, Gram Parsons or the Flying Burrito Brothers. There's one name that may not be as readily familiar but whose ...

The myth of Gram Parsons as father of country rock (and thus mainstream country music of the mid-1980s and Americana today) stretches the truth so far that it obscures the contributions of myriad ...

When Chris Hillman, now 65, plays at the 25th annual Tucson Folk Festival, he’ll have come full circle, back to the acoustic music of his youth. Hillman helped create the genre of country rock, giving ...

On Sept. 18, 1973, drinking heavily, Parsons took a fatally high dose of morphine and died in that very room. When he arrived at the hospital early on Sept. 19, 1973, he was declared dead on arrival.

Singer/songwriter Gram Parsons wears a Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels T-shirt at a party in the park in June 1973 in Los Angeles Credit: (Photo by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ...