Gram Parsons has been a massive musical Influence to everyone from Keith Richards to Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream). Gram played with the Byrds for a short time, but enough to make to make his presence known musically as he inspired the country direction for “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”. Gram Parsons seen here wearing a Fallen Angels T-shirt at a picnic in Los Angeles 1973. To promote his first album with Emmylou Harris, (simply entitled ‘GP’) Gram Parsons assembled the group that came to be known as "The Fallen Angels." Parsons had to put together a new band, since the Elvis Presley sidemen who played on the LP were not available for the tour.