Gram Parsons may not have had the most extensive catalog of music, but he's become a cult icon nonetheless and widely considered one of the most influential pioneers of Country Rock and Americana.
Any road you take in rock music, the one to fame or the one to oblivion, is paved with sad stories of mishaps and misfortune. Late Gene Clark, co-founder of The Byrds, is probably the epitome of them.
How do you explain power pop, a music genre that has ‘simple’ as its middle name? Well, you give it a simple explanation to boot - “Power pop is The Beatles meets The Who. That’s literally all there is to it.”
