To follow the thread of tragic musical pairings, I offer Gram Parsons (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers) and Emmylou Harris. They recorded two albums and toured together. He was separated from his wife and seeing another woman, but Emmylou fell in love with him. She had decided to tell him in person rather than over the phone, but he died in Joshua Tree before they saw each other again. She wrote "Boulder to Birmingham" about him. This is a live version from '77, three years after he died. I think the fire in the canyon she refers to is Gram's house in Topanga Canyon that burned to the ground.
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