Gram’s Long Road to the Hall of Fame
Gram Parsons is to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame If there was one endorsement which persuaded Rock & Roll Hall of Fame voters to finally induct country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons into their Early Influence Award category, it has to have been the on-going lobbying by Emmylou Harris. It was Parsons, of course, who plucked Harris from obscurity in a DC folk club to become his singing partner. And, from there, she became an Americana legend. When their collabor
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Music Loses Popular Cross-Genre Songwriter
Chip Taylor was one of music's most-admired songwriters Americana has lost a singer-songwriter many in the music industry referred to as “a national treasure.” And for good reason. For Chip Taylor, who died in New York on March 23, had the distinction of being one of the finest multiple-genre songwriters in modern music. Taylor, who was 86, started his 60-odd years in music by writing a number of pop hits which would become classics, among them “Wild Thing” (Troggs/Jimi
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