Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
"A Top Music Book of 2013"-Uncut"I am utterly blown away byCalling Me Home.It's masterful"-Bobby Braddock, Country Music Hall of Fame SongwriterAuthor, Down in Orburndale, A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida."Bob Kealing's Calling Me Home takes the reader from the present to the past and back again, conveying a vivid document of Gram Parsons's life and career...There are lots of surprises."-Holly George-Warren, author Public Cowboy #1: The Life and Times of Gene Autrey"Thankfully, Kealing forgoes the familiar to dig deeper in 'Calling Me Home,'...a welcome new definition of a cult figure who is long overdue for one."Jim Abbott,Orlando Sentinel, Tribune Newspapers"Kealing has drawn on dozens of new interviews, uncovering information that even Gram Parsons' most rabid fans will find fresh and revealing."Dave Carew,Underground Nashville"Mesmerizing...Kealing offers a compulsively readable and intimate portrait."Henry L. Carrigan Jr.,Bookpage"Bob Kealing has done some fine original reporting...breaks some new ground on a story of as vital and original a musician as this country has produced."Jeff Baker,The Oregonian