Gram Parsons

Setting Times stories to music: Falco, Flying Burrito Brothers

2013-03-30 09:00:00

When I clicked on the “Today’s Great Read” banner on the L.A. Times home page at week’s end, it hit me: The last five days of Column One stories, photos and videos—they were all presented like a gorgeous literary magazine....

Southern California dreaming on 2013 spring runways

2013-03-03 00:00:00

One of the great joys of being a fashion critic is the ability to observe how designers all over the world riff on and reinterpret the L.A. look. Watching the spring runway collections, whether I was sitting at a runway show in the crumbling Beekman...

First thoughts from new Rock Hall chief Greg Harris

2012-12-04 06:00:00

Southern California Close-Ups: Joshua Tree National Park and Desert Hot Springs

2012-03-25 00:00:00

It's a dry heat – a boulder-studded, wind-raked Mojave heat, in which rock stars lie low, artists think big, marines train, weird plants jut toward the sun like beseeching biblical figures, and climbers cling to granite walls like insects stuck to...

Jim McCrary dies at 72; photographer shot Carole King 'Tapestry' cover

2012-05-06 00:00:00

Photographer Jim McCrary was on the verge of shooting one of his most famous images when he stopped to ask singer Carole King if the cat sleeping across the room could be part of the tableau. He remembered the results of a Kodak survey that found...

Dillard & Clark: Celebrating an unsung L.A. country rock classic

2012-05-18 16:37:38

Rolling Stones' 'Exile' as feature film? Casting Mick and Keith

2012-04-27 16:37:12

Chris Ethridge dies at 65; bassist in 1960s band Flying Burrito Brothers

2012-04-25 00:00:00

Members of the International Submarine Band chose a name for their new group that practically ensured it would never rise above cult status, and sure enough, that band disappeared with barely a trace after making a handful of recordings in the mid-1960s....

Coachella musicians hip to fashion

2012-04-08 00:00:00

In the run-up to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which starts Friday, we've been anticipating not just the music and art but also the independent sense of style that will be on display. Here are some of the standouts who will hit the...

The Bakersfield Sound gets its due in Nashville

2012-03-27 04:35:28

Coachella 2012: Sweden's First Aid Kit explores American roots music

2012-04-10 16:38:08

Chris Ethridge, founding member of Flying Burrito Brothers, dies

2012-04-23 21:36:08

Despite hailing from Sweden, this sister duo cranks out some mellow American southern folk. Listen to "Emmylou" for their nods to country/folk greats Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash and June Carter. - Emily Van Zandt

2012-07-24 00:00:00

Chris Ethridge, a member of the pioneering country-rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers, died Monday at age 65. He co-wrote several songs with Gram Parsons, widely lauded as one of the most innovative figures in the marriage of country and rock in the 1960s.

2012-04-27 16:37:00

Gram Parsons.

2011-09-20 09:42:32