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Richard Parsons

Help Is On The Way

About Me



The new album HELP IS ON THE WAY is now available on CD Baby...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/19/2005
Band Website: richardparsonsmusic.com
Band Members: Richard Parsons
Influences: hmm... alphabetical and incomplete, but a fair sampling of a few artists that find their way to my music playback devices periodically... Aimee Mann, allegra gellar, Amy Ray, Beck, Ben Harper, Big Star, Brad, Charlie Daniels, Counting Crows, Creedence Clearwater Rivival, Danielle Howle, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Everything But the Girl, Depeche Mode, Dr. John - The Night Tripper, Duran Duran, Elliott Smith, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Faces, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Garbage, Howard Tate, Inxs, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Jump Little Children, Led Zeppelin, Mark Lanegan, Marvin Gaye, Mellowdrone, Metric, Michael Penn, Michelle Malone, Miles Davis, Mr. Bungle, Muse, Neil Young, NIN, Nirvana, Ours, OutKast, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Pigeonhed, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Portishead, Prince, Queen, QOTSA, R.E.M., Radiohead, Ray Charles, Satchel, Shawn Smith, Silversun Pickups, Sly & The Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Soundgarden, Starflyer 59, Stars, Steve Miller, Sugar, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, The Breakups, The Byrds, The Clash, The Doors, The Elected, The Postal Service, The Reindeer Section, The Tom Collins, The Watson Twins, The Who, Tori Amos, U2, Van Halen, Violent Femmes, Weezer
Sounds Like: "It never seems to hurt any less, with each lonely time around"
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Happenstance

For the first time in ten (10) years I will step on to a stage with a full band, next Saturday at the EARL. A band comprised of four other people that I will have met about ten hours prior to steppin...
Posted by Richard Parsons on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:20:00 PST

Help is on the way...

...and it is in the form of a new album of the same name. HELP IS ON THE WAY was recorded in about the same number of days as my last album but this time I did it all by my lonesome. The last week i...
Posted by Richard Parsons on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:30:00 PST

drunk, live and slightly out of tune...

Rose and Sharon insisted that I play a song at their house concert in Atlanta. I insisted that I was drunk. I also tried to tune Rose's beautiful guitar but failed... ...
Posted by Richard Parsons on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:10:00 PST

sharing a harmony with Rose, Sharon and Heather...

This was after Rose Polenzani and Sharon Lewis played an amazing house concert out on the lawn. It was also after several bottles of red wine. (Scotty on drums, Greg on Guitar) Thanks Rose,...
Posted by Richard Parsons on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:14:00 PST