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No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, on and on with this musician….\u00a0 For us one artist could fill the remaining slots of The Real Country (in part, we know the limits of your twang patience).\u00a0 Gram Parsons represented and still represents THE real country music.\u00a0\u00a0 No one else comes close.\u00a0 No one in that realm has ever touched the creative brilliance and soulful authenticity that showered across our blue skies for a handful of years and then plunged into darkness in 1973.\u00a0 It’s not even close.\u00a0 We’ll write another time in full about Gram [Lefort:\u00a0 A year later, it can be found HERE<\/strong><\/a>].\u00a0 Suffice it to say for now that he invented the country rock genre, and played it out in the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, occasionally with the Rolling Stones, and solo (with Emmylou Harris).\u00a0 And he paved the way for the “outlaws” movement and enabled Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings to restore real country music radio for a while.\u00a0 To this day his legacy remains strong, with the Santa Barbara Bowl recently hosting a phenomenal tribute concert to Parsons headlined by Keith Richards and Lucinda Williams.<\/p>\n But until another day, we give you his defining song, In My Hour of Darkness. <\/em>Glen D. Hardin opens and regales throughout on honky tonk piano.\u00a0 Emmylou Harris (who got her start with Parsons) co-wrote and sings like hell on this song (with Linda Ronstadt).\u00a0\u00a0 And we hear in this song that while Gram bottled up pain (and the bottle and his songs in turn poured it back out), his faith prevailed.\u00a0 The chorus is testament.<\/p>\n Gram Parsons–In My Hour of Darkness<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-In-My-Hour-Of-Darkness.mp3|titles=20 In My Hour Of Darkness]\n “In my hour of darkness Once I knew a young man In my hour of darkness Another young man safely strummed his In my hour of darkness Then there was an old man In my hour of darkness No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, on and on with this musician….\u00a0 For us one artist could fill the remaining slots of The Real Country (in part, we know the limits of your twang patience).\u00a0 Gram Parsons represented and still represents THE real country music.\u00a0\u00a0 No one else comes close.\u00a0 No one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn my time of need
\nOh, Lord grant me vision
\nOh, Lord grant me speed<\/p>\n
\nWent driving through the night
\nMiles and miles without a word
\nWith just his high-beam lights
\nWho’d have ever though they’d build such
\na deadly Denver bend
\nTo be so strong, to take as long as
\nit would till the end<\/p>\n
\nIn my time of need
\nOh, Lord grant me vision
\nOh, Lord grant me speed<\/p>\n
\nsilver string guitar
\nAnd he played to people everywhere
\nSome say he was a star
\nBut he was just a country boy,
\nhis simple songs confess
\nAnd the music he had in him,
\nso very few possess<\/p>\n
\nIn my time of need
\nOh, Lord grant me vision
\nOh, Lord grant me speed<\/p>\n
\nKind and wise with age
\nAnd he read me just like a book and he
\nnever missed a page
\nAnd I loved him like my father
\nAnd I loved him like my friend
\nAnd I knew his time would shortly come
\nbut I did not know just when<\/p>\n
\nIn my time of need
\nOh, Lord grant me vision
\nOh, Lord grant me speed
\nOh, Lord grant me vision
\nOh, Lord grant me speed”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Parsonspic1.jpg\" "\\"Parsonspic\\"")
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