What in the world is “Cosmic American Music?
Throughout Gram’s career, people were (and still are) trying to find an appropriate label for the music that Gram played. Gram despised most of the labels that the various music publications were calling his music, such as “Progressive Country”, “Continental ountry” and “Country Rock”, preferring instead to call his style “Cosmic American Music”. Despite Gram’s attempts to popularize the name “Cosmic American Music”, it was never taken seriously by the mainstream music industry and fell into obscurity. Today the title is rarely seen but is occasionally used between long time Gram fans and/or music historians.
