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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]
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 .
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 ...
Attention, L.A. country music fans: It may be time to charter a bus. Come Sept. 30, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville will be opening a new exhibit, “Western Edge: The Roots ...
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.
Left out of most obituaries about renowned country music talk-show host Ralph Emery, who died Saturday, was his infamy among many rock fans for having gotten into a tiff in the late 1960s with the ...
James Roger McGuinn / m ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942) [1] is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds.He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a member of the band.
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 15, 1973) [1] was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. [2] [3] He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s. [3]