Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons

A tight, clean and unmarked copy-" Ben Fong-Torres, a former Rolling Stone editor, draws on fascinating interviews with Parsons' friends and family to create the definitive biography of the wild child Southern boy of country music who blazed his name on rock 'n' roll and burned out at age 26. Includes eight pages of candid photographs.- A biography of a pioneer in country rock discusses Parson's privileged childhood, fame, friendship with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, drug problem, and mysterious death."- "A remarkable job of tracking the life of Mr. Parsons. The writing is clear and the tales ring true as he follows a seminal figure of country rock from his birth into a citrus-moneyed family in Winter Haven, Florida, to his drug-related death in the high desert town of Joshua Tree, California." --ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION