Gram Parsons
Tyler Childers: 'In country music, nobody is thinking about how to move people'
With John Prine and Willie Nelson among his fans and awards to his name, the Kentucky songwriter is a rising star of country – but he’s dismayed by its fixation on beer and pickup trucks
Rebecca Bengal
01, Aug, 2019 @3:00 PM
Emmylou Harris on her greatest hits: 'I was arrogant enough to think I could survive a flop'
The singer-songwriter talks us through her career, including duetting with Gram Parsons, discovering Gillian Welch – and wondering why today’s country music doesn’t speak to her
Marissa R Moss
22, Nov, 2018 @12:24 PM
Heart of gold: Neil Young's online archives are a revolution in fandom
The ornery singer-songwriter’s new online venture soups up the CD boxset with digital user-friendliness – and points the way to a new kind of music obsession
Michael Hann
04, Jun, 2018 @9:00 AM
What, no Whitney? The biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs ever – ranked!
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame recognises the world’s greatest popular music stars – except for the ones it doesn’t, from Kate Bush to Kraftwerk
Alexis Petridis
19, Apr, 2018 @11:00 AM
Emmylou Harris: ‘There are things I don't think we'll ever know the answers to’
The musician, 70, on rethinking her career, laughing with Dolly Parton and shopping with Neil Young
James McMahon
10, Mar, 2018 @2:00 PM
Musician Jim Lauderdale: 'Downs have helped me just as much as good things'
Americana legend discusses his new album, made with songs pulled from a trick bag he wrote previously with a range of respected songwriters but never released
Mark Guarino
17, Nov, 2016 @7:20 PM
From Top of the Pops to AC/DC – do you know this week in music history?
It’s our weekly test of the byways of pop – and today is a test of your knowledge on angry Swiss crowds, Carole King and the best ‘gay albums’ ever
Aletha Adu and Michael Hann
29, Jul, 2016 @6:00 AM
‘There’s a hunger for the next frontier’: the new cosmic Americana
Five decades since Gram Parsons pioneered an alternative strand of experimental Americana, the genre is thriving with a new generation of artists such as Steve Gunn and William Tyler inspired by its loose spirit
Laura Snapes
28, Jul, 2016 @2:50 PM
Gram Parsons – 10 of the best
The country rock pioneer reshaped the Byrds, redirected the Stones and pursued his own, often glorious vision of ‘cosmic American music’
Michael Hann
29, Jul, 2015 @10:00 AM
Emmylou Harris: I really don’t listen to new country music anymore
The country legend on the legacy of Gram Parsons, musical labels and why it took her nearly four decades to make records with her pal Rodney Crowell
Martin Farrer
11, May, 2015 @7:19 AM
Saturation 70: the Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew
Years before Star Wars, a maverick director led a crew into the desert to film a psychedelic science fiction epic – starring the country singer and the five-year-old son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones. Now unseen photographs will tell the bizarre story, writes Chris Campion
Chris Campion
05, Sep, 2014 @1:59 PM
Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music
This month Tim's tour of genres takes the pulse of Nashville's greatest export
Tim Jonze
10, Aug, 2012 @11:05 PM
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