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Hint of Passion. At 25, Parsons was already a star of longhair country, who was stretching folk material across thudding rock rhythms. Emmylou had a gift for 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...
...guess I was the first longhair to own land around here," Kenny said. "I got 13 acres here, call 'em Crazy Acres. I got this land about three years ago, and once people got to know me, I'm respected pretty much like any other land owner around here. The sheriff come snooping around my place one night, and Mr. Cowart says to him, 'Go away. That boy don't do anything wrong. Leave him alone.' I guess it seems like I come from nowhere. Sometime that first year I go to Mr. MacDonald, looking for someone...
...Polish establishment on Rte. 415 a few miles past Kenny's house. Local boys like Kenny and Rick Stacy and Danny Newton pronounce it "spudnick's." While both young and old like the place now, it used to be a rough spot to crash if you were a longhair, that is, until Kenny and his friends started drinking and playing a little pool there after working on their land. Now the jukebox has a mixture of country and rock music, a lot of it with country roots. Danny takes credit for adding the rock music as well as some artists...
...Around Gainesville, which I call the greatest marijuana terminal in the Western World, they're a lot of em growing marijuana on their farms. Course students started all that before, but it's caught on with the people with families. Now it seems like everybody is longhair...
...charged; Mitchell Ryan is tensely controlled except for a regrettable mad scene. But everyone else in the cast has apparently confused energy with volume, intensity with hysteria. The result might most kindly be described as dissonant. Even a record producer should have been able to spot do that. a longhair a favor, he gets blasted