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David N. Meyer: Twenty Thousand Roads – The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music

Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 14 December 2007

TO HIS CHAMPIONS, Gram Parsons was a cult-hero musical genius and the primary inventor of "country rock". But he was also a tragic figure who died prematurely, and whose work has never been properly appreciated.

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