Cover bands abound within contemporary music circles, both on stage and in the studio. But a chosen artist’s interpretation of the songs and music of another rarely matches (and never exceeds) the authenticity of spirit displayed by Christian Parker and those kindred spirits with whom he has been collaborating in recent years on the esteemed canon of that iconic American band, The Byrds.
Over the course of four albums now — the most outstanding of which is Change Is Now: A Tribute to The Byrds (2024) — Parker and company have pored through the catalog of the group from the start in 1965 to the finish in 1973. In so doing, the collective has begun to delve into that body of work created by the late Gram Parsons,…
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Christian Parker and company’s Back at Home is a natural extension of these same musicians’ previous – and equally unaffected – tributes to the Byrds. 2023’s Sweethearts: A Tribute to the Byrds’ ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo, offers their homage to that group’s original landmark fusion of rock and country, while the very next year’s Change Is Now is a more general acclamation of the iconic American band’s eclectic approach.
In what may well be the first entry in a series–at least based on its main title American Cosmic Revival Volume I — Parker and his sympathetic bandmates now delve further into the earliest work of Gram Parsons. The late singer and songwriter’s International Submarine Band was integral to the formulation of the hybrid that…