R.I.P.: Tompall Glaser

Tompall Glaser, who died Tuesday August 13, 2013 in Nashville at 79, helped expand the horizons of country music in the 1960s and ‘70s, at a time when country had reached the limit of its original, conservative impulses. Singing with his brothers Chuck and Jim, Tompall made significant advances as a singer, studio owner, songwriter and colorful, exuberant personality.

As a solo artist, Tompall Glaser recorded such landmarks of funk-country as 1977’s Tompall Glaser and His Outlaw Band. Along with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Jack Clement, Glaser chafed at the restrictions of the country-music industry, but he and his brothers began their careers as folk performers. MORE HERE