VMP Magazine
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Gram Parsons Before His Hour of Darkness
Photo courtesy of gramparsons.com
When Gram Parsons finished recording Grievous Angel, he called his sister Avis to tell her how proud he was of his latest work. “GP’s OK,” he said of his first record, as Avis recounted in Ben Fong-Torres’ Parsons biography, Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons. But Grievous Angel, the singer-songwriter told his younger sister, “is a lot more like what I want to accomplish.”