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Twenty Thousand Roads : The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David N. Meyer (2007, Hardcover)

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Gram Parsons lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpsea corpse his friends stole, took to Joshua Tree National Monument, and set afire in its coffin. The theft and burning of his body marked the end of Gram Parsons' life and the beginning of the Gram Parsons legend. As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus of countless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil at every one. Parson hung out with glamorous women and the coolest friends. His intimates and collaborators on his journey included Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, and Emmylou Harris. Parsons had everythinglooks, charisma, money, style, the best drugs, the most heartbreaking voiceand threw it all away with both hands. His ballad is one of gigantic talent colliding with epic self-destruction. Parsons led the Byrds to create the seminal country rock masterpiece Sweetheart of the Rodeo. He formed the Flying Burrito Brothers, helped to guide the Rolling Stones beyond the blues in their appreciation of American roots music, and found his musical soul mate in Emmylou Harris. Parsons' solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, are now recognized as visionary masterpieces of the transcendental jambalaya of rock, soul, country, gospel, and blues Parsons named "Cosmic American Music." Four months before Grievous Angel was released, Parsons died of a drug and alcohol overdose at age twenty-six. In this beautifully written, raucous, meticulously researched biography, David N. Meyer gives Parsons' mythic life its due. From Parsons' privileged Southern Gothic upbringing to his early career in Greenwich Village's folk music scene to his Sunset Strip glory days, Twenty Thousand Roads paints an unprecedented portrait of the man who linked country to rock. Parsons' creative genius gave birth to a new sound that was rooted in the past but heralded the future. From interviews with hundreds of the famous and obscure who knew and worked closely with Parsonsmany who have never spoken publicly about him beforeMeyer conjures a dazzling panorama of the artist and his era. Shedding new light and dispelling old myths, Twenty Thousand Roads is a breakthrough in rock-and-roll biography and morea chronicle of creativity, drugs, excess, culture, and music in the ferment of late-1960s America. Visit the official website: www.twentythousandroads.com From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375505709
ISBN-13
9780375505706
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59080882

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Book Title
Twenty Thousand Roads : the Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Author
David N. Meyer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
592 Pages

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Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz

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Ml420.P275m49 2007
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-021748
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092 B
Dewey Edition
22

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Twenty Thousand Roads : The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David N. Meyer (2007, Hardcover)

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