Stand By Your Sound
Chet Atkins may have brought elements of pop music into country music in developing what became known as "The Nashville Sound," but it was Billy Sherrill, as director of A&R for the Nashville...
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Hickory Wind
  In the late '60s, country and rock were a world apart musically and culturally, but that didn't stop Georgia-bred Gram Parsons from trying to forge a bipartisan alliance. He was ahead of his time--too far ahead, it turned out, for his own good. By the time folks like the Eagles cashed in on the vision he displayed in his brief '68 stint with The Byrds, in his spinoff group, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and in later solo work (featuring protégé Emmylou Harris), Parsons had self-destructed, dying in 1973 before he'd turned 27. As evidenced by the myriad country and rock artists who still cite him as an influence, his music (exemplified by the haunting "Hickory Wind")--and his myth-live on.

(G. Parsons/B. Buchanan); Produced by Gary Usher; Gram Parsons, guitar and lead vocal; Roger McGuinn, guitar and vocal; Chris Hillman, bass and vocal; Kevin Kelley, drums; Earl Ball, piano; John Hartford, fiddle; Jay Dee Maness or Lloyd Green, steel guitar; (possibly also) Clarence White, guitar; Roy Huskey, bass; Jon Corneal, drums; Rec. March 9, 1968. From Sweetheart Of The Rodeo; Columbia CS 9670 (mx. XSM 136654); Originally Released 1968