Bob Kealing, an Edward R. Murrow and three-time Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC's WESH-TV in Orlando, is the author of Kerouac in Florida and Tupperware Unsealed.
"A compulsively readable and intimate portrait of a young man who
introduced the pure strains of country stars such as the Louvin
Brothers and Merle Haggard to musicians like Bernie Leadon of the
Eagles and Chris Hillman."--Engine 145
"A sympathetic human portrait of the man that neither glosses over
nor sensationalizes him."--Detroit Metro Times
"Follows Parsons through a succession of teenage bands and juvenile
collaborations, visiting along the way many of the places . . .
where in the early '60s there was a flourishing if mostly
undocumented music scene."--Uncut Magazine
"Illuminates new parts of the myth, deepens the story and further
underscores that plaintive, high lonesome voice singing 'In My Hour
of Darkness.'"--REAL SOUTH Magazine
"Kealing's skilled reporting uncovers new twists in the Parsons
narrative. It's a worthy addition even to a bookshelf already
groaning with Gram bios, and it's best read with Parson's music
playing in the background."--Nashville Tennessean
"Looks beyond the melodrama at the musical influences that Parsons
absorbed and the ones that he passed along to pals such as Keith
Richards of the Rolling Stones."--Orlando Sentinel
"Read it for the tragic tale of a local boy who flew too close to
the sun, and use it as a reference for, and introduction to, the
thriving music scene in our neck of the woods during the
1960s."--Florida Times-Union
"The most well-rounded, most multi-dimensional picture we've ever
had of the visionary yet maddeningly complex musician. . . . If you
read just one biography of Gram Parsons, make sure it's this
one."--Underground Nashville
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