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Parsons's relatively short career was described by AllMusic as "enormously influential" for country and rock, "blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other. While all this was going on, Polly Parsons was just an infant. . Parsons, they said, was unconscious. [citation needed], The Flying Burrito Brothers appeared at the Sky River Rock Festival near Sultan, Washington, at the end of August.[32][33][34]. Although John Phillips (an acquaintance of Shiloh George Wrigley) arranged an exploratory meeting with Albert Grossman, the impresario balked at booking the group for a Christmas engagement at The Bitter End when he discovered that the Shilohs were still high school students. Friends claimed the cremation near Joshua Tree had been Parsons wish. The blaze swept through his Laurel Canyon house, and he moved in with friends. By this time, Parsons's own use of drugs had increased so much that new songs were rare and much of his time was diverted to partying with the Stones, who briefly relocated to America in the summer of 1969 to finish their forthcoming Let It Bleed album and prepare for an autumn cross-country tour, their first series of regular live engagements in over two years. As Parsons "became a trust-fund baby when he came of age," he was still receiving about $30,000 per year (equivalent to $210,000 in 2018)[35] from his family trust during this period, "distinguishing him from his many hungry, hard-scrabble peers."[36]. The slab has since been removed by the U.S. National Park Service, and relocated to the Joshua Tree Inn. [5] The Connors normally resided at their main residence in Waycross, Georgia, but Avis returned to her hometown in Florida to give birth. Sitting in her old duplex in the Fairfax area, Parsons exudes quiet intensity and speaks in a precise, little-girl voice. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Within a week police arrested Phil Kaufman, 38, Parsons road manager, and Michael Martin, 26, reported to have been a roadie with the Byrds during Parsons one year with the group. Kaufman was arrested at his Van Nuys home on September 26th. It's so incredibly timeless it never ceases to move his fans in the same exact way as it did the second they heard him.".