Gram Parsons, buried in New Orleans 40 years ago, is your midday music break


Gram Parson is buried in Metairie, at the Garden of Memories on Airline Highway.

By Alison Fensterstock, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on September 23, 2013


Soft-voiced troubadour Gram Parsons, born and raised in central Florida and Georgia, impacted music tremendously in the mid-'60s when he helped introduce the sounds of country music, not to mention the look of Nudie suits, to groups such as The Byrds (of which he was a member) and the Rolling Stones.

With his own Flying Burrito Brothers and International Submarine Band, as well as on his iconic duets with Emmylou Harris, he sang hip, rollicking rock 'n' roll tempered tenderly with country, gospel and even swamp pop.



Parsons died young, at age 26, in Joshua Tree, Calif. His life got a peculiar epilogue (as documented in the 2003 film “Grand Theft Parsons”) when two friends of his absconded with his corpse, which was waiting at the Los Angeles airport to be shipped to Louisiana for burial, and attempted to immolate it in the Southern California desert. They were caught, and the body recovered; Parsons is now buried in the Garden of Memories cemetery off Airline Drive in Metairie. (Attendants there are used to pilgrims visiting his grave. They’ll give you a map, with his resting place clearly marked, if you ask.)

R.I.P., Gram Parsons.




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Thanks Edith.

Here's a lenghty bio of Parsons.

http://ebni.com/byrds/memgrp1.html

sirmoonie wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 3:03pm:



Don't know about that, but Carlos Marcello was pretty big 'round these parts.

Thanks for the article, all those country rockers owe a great dept to him, including those hated Eagles, without him would there ever be Country Rock?