Yesterday, the Museum celebrated the reunion of the The Flying Burrito Brothers’ four Nudie suits—the iconic suits worn by Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Pete Kleinow, and Chris Ethridge on the album cover of “The Gilded Palace of Sin.” Together again for the first time in more than fifty years, Chris Ethridge’s long-lost suit was reunited with the other three in a special ceremony. Ethridge’s rose-embroidered, rhinestone-accented suit was reported stolen from a car in 1969, but its recent appeara

Gram Parsons helped invent country rock. Played with The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers. Died young, tragically, in 1973. But it’s what happened after his death that made his story truly legendary. It’s one of the weirdest, wildest stories in music history—part myth, part crime, totally bizarre. #gramparsons #truecrime #musichistory #joshuatree #countryrock #rocknroll #rocknrollhistory #weirdcore #truecrimeobsessed #weirdhistory #truecrimejunkie | Sorry I Brought It Up with Mel Zee