The whole song is pretty cool ... If it doesn’t sound like The Byrds… all other electric 12-strings sound wrong. A simple, harmony-rich reading of the British trad standard, based on Robert ...
The Byrds might have technically fired David Crosby, but he was already creatively out the door thanks to one musician and ...
Defining folk rock is a paradoxical task, to say the least. 50 Years Ago: Original Byrds Get Back Together for One More LP 50 Years Ago: Original Byrds Get Back Together for One More LP Before ...
For those who were around to witness it, November 1969 must have seemed like a topsy-turvy time. Not only had it been a year ...
As with all influential musicians ... Another Seeger song, "Turn! Turn! Turn!," also became part of the anti-Vietnam soundtrack when The Byrds recorded their version, which hit No. 1 in 1965.
Change Is Now; She Don't Care About Time; Here Without You; The World Turns All Around; Her I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better; Chimes of Freedom; Wild Mountain Thyme Ballad of Easy Rider; Get to You; Time ...
Hearing Ballad of Easy Rider from a fifty-five-year perspective no doubt evokes the same reaction as it did at its original release: 'This doesn't sound ...
I’m a Byrds fanatic, really ... There was this huge upheaval and I was writing all these songs on my own, and I started playing that song because it was so important to she and I.