Looking for a live performance by Gram Parsons, I came across this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqpRTuARCEThey made a beautiful album together, "Return of the Grievous Angel." Their voices practically became one. He was one of the great musical losses during the craziness of the 60s, a passing hardly noted at the time. In retrospect he is recognized as the inventor of country rock. He was a lot more country than rock, an Alabama boy his whole life. What a voice. And he had the same thing going for him the apparent favorite on American Idol has going for her --:sincerity.
Good article about her, BTW --
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-live-0428-crystal-bowersox-2-20100428,0,7817171.story