Word: grams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smellies King. One of the newest wrinkles in T shirts is the Shirt-O-Gram, which features in large capital letters a Western Union-style message. Cost: about $7 for up to 15 words. Californian Chris Engen, 27, who created Shirt-O-Grams, custom prints the shirtfront messages and sends them anywhere in the U.S. One typical message: DEAR BARRY. CONGRATULATIONS. THE RABBIT DIED. PLEASE CALL...
...never fully conceived a pro gram for America, achieved al most nothing on the home front...
Rock Nail. If Castaneda was their spiritual mentor, the late Gram Parsons, who was among the first to combine country music with the energy of rock, was their musical inspiration. The Eagles' tunes, performed on three rock guitars paced by a drummer and a bass guitar, have more wail than twang. They are in fact a somewhat unlikely assemblage. Drummer Don Henley, 28, and Guitarists Frey, 26, and Don Felder, 27, have roots in rock. Bernie Leadon, 28, is country-trained, while Randy Meisner, 29, remains partial to Motown blues...
...college and eventually on to New York's Greenwich Village and Nashville. She was married, had a child, got divorced and returned home to Maryland, to live with her parents and raise her daughter. She was singing local dates there when, in 1971, she met singer-guitarist Gram Parsons...
...penetrating to the heart of a lyric. Parsons taught her to sing honky-tonk ballads like his Sin City, and soon invited her to Los Angeles to do back-up harmonies for his albums (GP and Grievous Angel). When Parsons died in 1973, she was personally and professionally devastated. "Gram turned me on to root country, to George Jones with his East Texas twang," she says. "I still try to learn Gram's songs and copy his phrasing." Parsons' musical vision did not produce superhits. Though her records only hint at the kind of passion she sometimes shows...