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| Title | : | Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813042046 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
If you read just one biography of Gram Parsons, make sure it’s this one.”—Underground Nashville. It's masterful"-Bobby Braddock, Country Music Hall of Fame SongwriterAuthor, Down in Orburndale, A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida."Bob Kealing's Calling Me Home takes the reader from the present to the past and back again, conveying a vivid document of Gram Parsons's life and careerThere are lots of surprises."-Holly George-Warren, author Public Cowboy #1: The Life and Times of Gene Autrey "Thankfully, Kealing forgoes the familiar to dig deeper in 'Calling Me Home,'a welcome new definition
Brief and not overly interesting account. For a book about a man who is supposed to be the founder of country rock "music" it is very short on actual musical comment apart from fleeting mentions of Rolling Stone magazine reviews and a run down of who plays on the albums. Gram's self destructive streak is probably well covered but details of any attempt to break this are not particularly well detailed.. Calling Waycross Georgia Calling Me Home is definitely not the insightful, revelatory biography of Gram's early years that I had been led to expect by the other reviewers on Amazon; are they ringers or people who can profit from bumping Gram's catalog or are they merely mistaken? I don't know. But this book reads like it was conceived as an expanded college-level thesis on the teen club scene in Florida in the '60s and written in a basic, workman-like style by someone who displays little affinity for Parsons' music beyond . Kevin said Superficial Book. I am extremely disappointed with this book and very surprised by the positive reviews. It is really just a superficial gloss on Gram's life and career drawn from more in-depth, quality books on Gram (such as David N. Meyer's excellent "Twenty Thousand Roads) and trite interviews decades after the fact with peripheral figures from Gram's youth. I just can't see how this book justifies its existence. It spends an enormous amount of time on the least exciting parts of Gram's life (before he's twenty,
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, he was a key confidante of Keith Richards. Starting in Waycross, Georgia, Parsons’s boyhood home, Kealing traces Parsons’s journey through both famous venues and out-of-the-way dives. Thompson “I could almost hear the music coming from those now-dilapidated buildings where Gram Parsons received his musical education. Drawing on dozens of new interviews as well as unpublished letters and photographs provided by Parsons’s family and rare images from legendary photojournalist Ted Polumbaum, Kealing examines the remarkable array of musicians and friends with whom Parsons collaborated and from whom he gained inspiration. Even though we know how this story is going to end—tragically, of course—Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons through his short, rich life.”—William McKeen, author of Outlaw Journalist: The Lif
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