ASIN: B005C6E5DK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 312
BREAKFAST IN NUDIE SUITS is the story of a bunch of musicaldesperados fighting the business, fighting audience indifference andfighting musical prejudice as they played a new kind of country.Ian Dunlop and his friend and fellow International Submarine Bandmember Gram Parsons travelled across America playing against abackdrop of Hollywood hopefulness, the Vietnam draft dodge and theband's dogged insistence that unfashionable country music could beany kind of creative force in the rock era. This is a road trip in the great American tradition and the events of the mid-sixties crackle off the page.The book contains a glimpse into the Parsons legend that has neverbeen offered before; a look at the life-line on his palm, an ear tohis spontaneous banter and a candid portrait sketched during aformative, creatively productive and happy era of his life.Reviews‘It ended too soon for me, I wanted ...
