Gram Parsons Emerges From the Lost and Found: How a Great, Misplaced 1973 Concert Tape Became One of the Record Store Day Hits of 2023
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic 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 over the subsequent half-century is never-ending, as is conjecturing how he might have simply have brought the world closer to his own fearless hybrid of country and rock, with more years to grow his audience after what amounted to a mere five-year heyday.
But it’s as if he never went away, listening to the new album “Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels: The Last Roundup, Live From the Bijou Cafe in Philadelphia, 3/16/73,” released on vinyl this weekend exclusively for Record Store Day’s annual Black Friday event.
Part of the immediacy is the constant presence of Emmylou Harris through the entire double-LP, as a harmony or duet partner; if she’s still so vibrant and still such a part of our lives, how can Parsons be 50 years gone?
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