Twenty Thousand Roads

The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music

Biopic. Born to a wealthy Southern-Gothic family of alcoholics and suicides, Gram Parsons possessed an outsized appetite for self-destruction and a singular genius for the American sound. He led the Byrds to create the first country-rock album, founded the acclaimed Flying Burrito Brothers, and taught the joys of American roots music to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Emmylou Harris. His second solo album, Grievous Angel, remains a masterpiece of country soul. Before it was released, Parsons, aged 26, - brilliant, glamorous and doomed, died of a heroin overdose. Twenty Thousand Roads paints

Story added by thevanman on November 9, 2018