Saying Gram Parsons was more of a rocker is insane!!! He was more country than the pop crap swill perpetually groomed and shoved down our throats by Nashville. That's like saying Willie Nelson should be considered more of a jazz artist than a country artist because of the chords he uses on the guitar or the way he phrases his vocal melodies. It must be all of that steel guitar that turned you off.

Last Sunday I was lucky enough to see the Dave Rawlings Machine tear the house down in Seattle. I was very curious to see how the dynamic was going to play between the musicians on stage , with Gillian Welch seemingly being the only topic of conversation over heard befor the show. A lot of people seemed to be vaguely aware that he was her duet partner , or that the band was made up of Old Crow Medicine Show members-of course no one seemed to really know who the hell Benmont Tench was when he… Continue