Did Gram Write “The Ballad Of Easy Rider?
The Byrds’ “The Ballad Of Easy Rider” has an arrangement of an old Dixie hymn called “Jesus Is Just All Right With Me.” Although it was originally thought that this arrangement was introduced to Roger McGuinn by Gram Parsons, in fact it was fellow Byrd member GENE Parsons (no relation) who was responsible for this introduction. Several years later, the Doobie Brothers had a hit with the song.
