Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock (Hardcover)

Calling Me Home is about just that: a land that always beckons, that underlies most of Gram's songwriting, .

A land that informs not only him but all others with whom he associated and learned from him."--Gram InterNational "Takes the reader from the present to the past and back again, conveying a vivid document of Gram Parsons' life and career, as well as those who played essential roles in the country-rock pioneer's journey.

There are lots of surprises along the way."--Holly George-Warren, author of Public Cowboy No.

1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry "Has a great narrative velocity.

Even though we know how this story is going to end--tragically, of course--Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons through his short, rich life."--William McKeen, author of Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S.

Thompson "I could almost hear the music coming from those now-dilapidated buildings where Gram Parsons received his musical education.

Bob Kealing makes them come alive as he explores the faces and places that turned Parsons from a southern-bred trust fund child into a self-destructive yet visionary musical pioneer."--Jeffrey M.

Lemlich, author of Savage Lost: Florida Garage Bands: The 60s and Beyond On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor.