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Here’s a taster from the Missing Parsons longplayer, a tune called What’s In A Name? (Genevieve). It’s an homage to all those artists that gave country a groove - in particular Little Feat and Mike Nesmith – and an excuse to break out the wood blocks, bongos and much underrated vibraslap. It’s cut to footage from the first leg of the Live Fast, Die Young road trip from LA to Joshua Tree. Further down you can see our cover of Townes Van Zandt’s classic tune If I Needed You.

Missing Parsons the songwriters are Chris Price and Simon Kilshaw. We wrote and recorded a soundtrack to accompany the journey described in the book, and the first track on the album, Live Fast, Die Young – can you see what we’ve done there? – has become our theme tune. Simon is a lecturer in Music Technology at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He’s the technical brains behind the band – it’s Simon that wrote the program for playing the Theremin on a Wii (listen to it on our cover of Townes Van Zandt’s If I Needed You below) and he’s also working on another exciting evolution to Missing Parsons’ technology presence, of which more soon.

Chris and Simon met at school and have played music together for years. We wrote the songs on the album, sang and played all the instruments with a little help from more talented Parsons on the bits which were too difficult to do on our own (golly the pedal steel is hard). You can buy it from iTunes, Amazon or your favourite digital music retailer.

Below is our cover of If I Needed You. We’ve stayed true to the signature groove of the original, but taken a few liberties elsewhere, including a wobbleboard and that Theremin played on a Wii: