Pernell Roberts

Primarily known as an actor, principally for his six years in the role of Adam Cartwright on the television series Bonanza, Pernell Roberts' musical activities were largely an outgrowth of that program. Roberts came out of Waycross, GA, a town best-known in music as the birthplace of Gram Parsons and in motion pictures as the setting (and source of exteriors) for director Jean Renoir's first English-language film, the haunting 1941 rural morality tale Swamp Water. After dropping out of college and stints as a butcher and forest ranger, among other occupations, Roberts made i...