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Thread #30584   Message #393534
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
08-Feb-01 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: Gram Parsons Fans Only!
Subject: RE: Gram Parsons Fans Only!
GP was hanging hard with the Stones around the time of the Let It Bleed, and although Keith and Mick give him no songwriting credit, they do cite him as a big influence on the Country direction they took on that and later albums. Mick's faux-southern accent (ie Far away Eyes) was a direct impression of Gram's Georgia drawl. The song Dead Flowers refers to a bouquet that Gram's wife Gretchen sent him at the Stones Swiss villa when they were having a quarrel....it was mis-routed and arrived a week late. Wild Horses, although likely a Jagger/Richards number, was promised to Gram and the Burritos for a single.