Actually, he's buried here. His grave is a shrine, and his country-flavored rock is turning up in clubs around town. Local musicians explain why.

God’s own singer is buried in Metairie, but his influence is being felt in Uptown clubs and far beyond.

Gram Parsons, the charismatic and mysterious scion of Southern wealth who brought country music and rock together in the late-'60s and early-70s, is enjoying a renaissance, twenty-one years after his death.

A recent tribu...