Imagine an artist who never had a mainstream hit, yet the haunting legacy of Gram Parsons continues to define the hybrid sounds of Cosmic American Music and Americana. By deconstructing the transition from 1960s folk to the distorted pedal steel of The Flying Burrito Brothers, we reveal the friction between the Nashville establishment and the psychedelic counterculture that birthed Country Rock and the career of Emmylou Harris. Born Ingram Cecil Conner III into a staggering citrus fruit fortune, Parsons lived a life defined by immense psychological weight and profound tragedy. Following the 1958 suicide of his father and the 1965 death of his mother on the very day he graduated high school, he utilized a 30,000 unit annual trust fund to abandon H ...