Guitarist and singer Christian Parker and nearly a dozen of his pals, including Earl Poole Ball, Patrick Cleary, and JayDee Maness, are on a mission. They want to expose new generations to the so-called cosmic country pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by acts such as the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and the Flying […]
Willie Nelson Is Still Going Strong It’s remarkable that Willie Nelson is still making records nearly three decades after the age when the average American retires. But it’s even more remarkable that those LPs contain some of the best work of his long career. Dream Chaser, which arrived shortly after Nelson’s 93rd birthday, is his […]
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American Cosmic Revival Volume 1 – Back At Home This is a tribute to Gram Parsons & his International Submarine Band’s “Safe At Home” (1967) – started almost 60 years ago. I often thought Gram named his band after a live radio performance in a Little Rascals episode. The Little Rascals’ band name was coincidentally […]
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