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Gram Parsons, The Burrito Ego Man

Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 25 July 1970

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday: Gram Parsons, founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, was a Byrd, a southerner and a Harvard College Drop-out. With the formation of the Burrito Brothers, Gram found a niche that seems mutually beneficial; a niche in country-rock, a term Parsons hates.

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