The Flying Burrito Brothers were the country-rock prototype, educating the masses with a marriage of mainstream rock and then-outdated country and western twang. While the band’s heyday was relatively ...

Pedal steel guitarist “Sneaky” Pete Kleinow, one of the unsung heroes of country rock, died Jan. 6 in Petaluma of complications brought on by Alzheimer’s disease. He was 72. He had been ill for a year ...

The Rolling Stones‘ “Wild Horses” is one of the band’s most famous ballads. Notably, The Flying Burrito Brothers first recorded the tune. Subsequently, The Flying Burrito Brothers’ Gram Parsons ...

Gram Parsons began The Flying Burrito Brothers with Chris Hillman when the two men left The Byrds in 1968, but the group continued on admirably without Parsons, under Hillman's stewardship, in the ...

On the version of “Undo the Right” that opens disc two of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969, Gram Parsons can’t match the operatic intensity of Johnny Bush’s 1968 hit ...

The shows were over, but for Phil Kaufman, the headache was just beginning. Then the road manager for the Flying Burrito Brothers, one of the bands credited with finding the common ground between rock ...

Guitarist Bernie Leadon was at the forefront of bringing country rock to mainstream audiences in the early 1970s. His recordings with the Eagles dominated radio, and they became one of history’s ...

To say musician John Beland has a long resume would be rather understating the point. In a career that started when he was 17, Beland, now 72, has worked with Linda Ronstadt, Ricky Nelson, Dolly ...

As a founding member of the Byrds, Gene Clark was folk rock royalty. Onstage, he usually stood center, leaning into his microphone while occasionally shaking a tambourine. Though his well-built ...

Although the Flying Burrito Brothers was a passing phase in Gram Parsons's career between the Byrds and his solo material, the band nevertheless indicated that he'd become one of country-rock's ...