While Parsons never enjoyed commercial success, he influenced everyone from The Rolling Stones to Wilco with an outsider’s approach to country music. He was alternative country (or alt-country ...

Lola Kirke found country music through the back door of rock and roll. “I found Gram Parsons through the Rolling Stones and The Byrds—Parsons was my gateway drug,” the singer, songwriter ...

Specifically, the Country Music Hall of Fame somehow got The Rolling Stones legend to perform ... Richards has publicly acknowledged Roy Rogers and Gram Parsons as major influences.

Gram Parsons enjoyed an extremely long stay at ... It could be a bit to do with why Gram’s not playing on the record.” The Rolling Stones were no strangers to the divine influence of gospel ...

Although The Monks never planned to have the same kind of musical career that The Rolling Stones had by any stretch ... Everyone was on the comedown, and Gram Parsons was more than happy to be the ...

during the period when The Rolling Stones were working on their classic album Exile On Main St. Parsons played country music with Richards and learned to expand his own horizons; the Stones let ...

Frankly professed after the fact by co-founders Gram ... Parsons and, by extension, the band he’d initially spearheaded, it ratifies more than a few observations (including Keith Richards’) suggesting ...

“By all means, The Rolling Stones should retire,” Lydon, 69, said on “Good Morning Britain” Wednesday. The he quipped: “I’ve offended music lovers.” But Lydon doesn’t put himself ...

Fans are just learning how legendary rock band Rolling Stones got their name, despite the band forming over six decades ago. After banding together in London in 1962, the group now includes ...

The Rolling Stones will return with a new song that might surprise casual fans: "Zydeco Sont Pas Sales," a song with Creole French lyrics popularized by zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier of Opelousas ...