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After returning to California, the Byrds' released the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album on August 30, 1968, [36] almost eight weeks after Parsons had left the band. It comprised a mixture of country music standards and contemporary country material, along with a country reworking of William Bell's soul hit "You Don't Miss Your Water". [158]
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released in August 1968 by Columbia Records. [9] Recorded with the addition of country rock pioneer Gram Parsons, it became the first album widely recognized as country rock [5] as well as a seminal progressive country album, [6] and represented a stylistic move away from the psychedelic rock of the band's ...
Kevin Daniel Kelley (March 25, 1943 – April 6, 2002) was an American drummer, best known for his work with the rock bands the Byrds and the Rising Sons. [1] Kelley also played drums for Fever Tree, although it is unknown whether he was an official member of the group or not. [1]
The Byrds' 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' at 50: Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman on the Country Rock Classic
Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.He recorded as a solo artist and with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, popularizing what he called "Cosmic American Music", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock.
Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944) [1] is an American musician. He was the original bassist of the Byrds.With frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock, defining the genre through his work with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas and the country-rock group the Desert Rose Band.
The bulk of the band's releases were issued on Columbia Records or its subsidiaries, except their final studio album, Byrds, and its associated singles, which Asylum Records released in 1973. [2] Before signing a recording contract with Columbia, the band released a single with Elektra Records in 1964 under the name the Beefeaters .
The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the fifth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on January 15, 1968, by Columbia Records. [1] [2] The album represents the pinnacle of the Byrds' late-'60s musical experimentation, with the band blending together elements of psychedelia, folk rock, country, electronic music, baroque pop, and jazz.