It’s titled “The Byrds – 1964-1967”.
Details here:
Preo-order here:
https://www.bmgbooks.com/browse/bmg-books-eu/products/the-byrds-1964-1967
But wait…at a price range of $425 to $1,000…do they think we’re all millionaires?
Many thanks to David for the info.
Our regular correspondent and friend Mike M. from the U.K. alerted us about a new album that has just been released.
You can get a download here:
https://geneparsonsband.hearnow.com/
Gene Parsons Band - Recorded Live 1981 - 1983
1. California Blues (8:51)
2. Won't Last Long (4:55)
3. Mercury Blues (8:42)
4. Hickory Wind (4:02)
5. Buckaroo (3:57)
6. Nashville West - Take A City Bride City Bride (6:42)
7. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (8:43)
8. She Caught The Katy (8:07)
9. Lily's Hot Bread (2:27)
10. Wind And Rain (4:03)
11. Why You Been Gone So Long (6:12)
12. Banjo Dog (3:31)
13. Diggi Liggi Li (6:25)
14. Nuclear Dayz (7:35)
15. You Don't Miss Your Water (11:08)
16. In My Hour Of Darkness (4:43)
17. There Must Be Someone (6:05)
18. Why You Been Gone So Long 2 (4:09)
19. Real Life Problems (2:54)
20. Swing Down Chariot (2:42)
Many thanks to Mike for the info and to Gene Parsons for the download and ordering details
John York
Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021, 3:00pm
$20
The Coffee Gallery Back Stage
2029 N. Lake Ave. Altadena CA 91001
Reservations: 626-798-6236
www.coffeegallerybackstage.com
Patrons must be masked and fully vaccinated to attend.
Please present card or image of card upon entry.
No exceptions.
Coming December 3, 2021
180g Audiophile Vinyl 3LP!
Numbered, Limited Edition - Strictly Limited To 3500 Copies!
Third Bonus LP Is Exclusive To This Edition!
Career Spanning Overview Featuring Solo Work + The Byrds, Gosdin Brothers, Dillard & Clark & More!
Also on triple CD
Gene Clark was an American singer-songwriter and responsible for The Byrds' greatest hits, including "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Eight Miles High" and "Set You Free This Time". After making music in several group formations furthermore with The Gosdin Brothers, Doug Dillard and Carla Olson, and recording several albums with members of The Byrds over the years, Clark embarked on a solo career that encompassed heavily orchestrated treasures like "No Other" and folk-focused "White Light". Through it all and in every setting, Clark's clear and true vocals, his poetic turns of phrase, and his skill at weaving melancholy melodies never wavered. His body of work is impressive and, long after his passing in 1991, has remained influential to each new generation of pop artists who followed in his wake.
To honor his legacy and the impressive repertoire he left behind, Music On Vinyl proudly presents the new Collected compilation album in collaboration with Universal Music. Collected is a compilation featuring Gene Clark's greatest songs and is a career-spanning 2LP including tracks by The Byrds and with The Gosdin Brothers, Carla Olson and other collaborations.
The limited edition of Gene Clark - Collected includes an exclusive third bonus LP, which won't be included with the regular 2LP edition. The bonus LP features "So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Acoustic Demo)" with The Gosdin Brothers, "Lyin' Down The Middle" as Dillard & Clark, "Del Gato (Live)" and "Changes" with Carla Olson, "I Pity The Poor Immigrant", "Stand "She's The Kind Of Girl" amongst others.
This 3LP edition of Gene Clark - Collected is available as a limited edition of 3,000 individually numbered copies and includes a 4-page insert with liner notes and photos.
Tony Poole and Ian Whitmore have reunited as SEAL, written all the new tracks, played all the instruments and sung all the vocals. Tony produced the album.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to go back in time and find yourself in 1965/1966/1967 again!
The CD is available from SEAL’s website at
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We just learned of the passing on July 10, of fiddle player Byron Berline, associated with The Byrds and an ex-member of The Flying Burrito Brothers among many other artists and bands.
"Berline was a member of Bill Monroe’s BlueGrass Boys — with whom he co-wrote and recorded the bluegrass standard “Gold Rush” in 1967 — before going on to become aligned with a generation of country-rockers as well as traditionalists.
He’s known to Rolling Stones fans for having played on “Country Honk,” a variation on “Honky Tonk Women” that appeared on the band’s classic 1969 “Let It Bleed” album, and to Dylan enthusiasts for taking part in the “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” film soundtrack sessions. In the early ’70s, he briefly joined the Flying Burrito Brothers and Stephen Stills’ Manassas.
Other artists Berline recorded with include Elton John, the Byrds, the Band, Gram Parsons, the Dillards, the Doobie Brothers, Lucinda Williams, Rod Stewart, Gene Clark, Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, the Eagles, Bill Wyman, Tammy Wynette and Doc Watson."
See details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Berline
David Van Cortlandt Crosby turns 80 today.
The ex-Byrd’s erratic lifestyle didn’t make him the perfect candidate for reaching that age.
Who would have thought he would still be going strong and be so prolific today?
Happy Byrd-day David!
SONGS BY BYRDS COVERED BY OTHER ARTISTS
MAY
NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER.
Download
it here:
https://www53.zippyshare.com/v/HlsoHR8t/file.html
Compiled
by David Chirko, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
canartscene.com/members/dchirko & chirkoart.ca
Many thanks to David.
ROLLING STONE May 20, 2021
David Crosby’s new album For Free is arriving July 23rd, less than a month before his 80th birthday. It features collaborations with Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen, Sarah Jarosz, and James Raymond, his son and longtime bandmate.
“With a transcendent quality that lies somewhere between poetry, prayer, and wild-eyed rock 'n' roll,” reads the official album announcement, “For Free" yet again reveals Crosby’s rare gift for imparting essential truths with both undeniable warmth and a profound sense of wonder”.
The album opens with “River Rise", written by Raymond and McDonald. “‘River Rise’ came from wanting to write something very evocative of California, but almost with a country-song perspective”, Raymond says, “something that speaks to the empowerment of the everyman or everywoman”.
The title track is a cover of a 1970 Joni Mitchell song from her classic LP Ladies Of The Canyon. “Joni’s the greatest living singer/songwriter, and ‘For Free’ is one of her simplest”, Crosby says in a statement. “It’s one of my favorite songs because I love what it says about the spirit of music and what compels you to play”.
Another song, “Rodriguez For A Night”, was written specifically for the project by Fagen. “It’s really fucking good, man”, Crosby told Rollin Stone last year “I’m so honored he gave us a set of words. I’ve been asking him for a couple of years. He started to trust us, I think. It took a long time, but he gave us a set of words that are really wonderful and we just wrote the shit out of them”.
For Free is Crosby’s fifth solo album since 2014. Prior to that, he’d only released three solo albums throughout his entire career. He’s been off the road since the pandemic started, and he recently sold his publshing to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group to make up for the loss in income.
“I think people are going to love this record”, he told Rolling Stone last year. “I think people are going to like the music. And that is great. That is what I’m holding onto, fiercely, to try and get through all the crazy. And there’s a lot of crazy”.
Many thanks to David E. for the info
Roger McGuinn plays David Crosby's Gretsch!
The guy in the light brown jacket is producer Gary Usher.
Starbyrd, the legendary Byrds-sounding band from Cologne, Germany, led by Horst-Peter Schmidt (the crown prince of the Rickenbacker 12-string), have a new CD out.
It’s called “At The Crossroads”.
Tracks:
(All songs written by H.P. Schmidt except where noted)
(Liner notes by Eric Sorensen)
01 At The Crossroads
02 Tightrope Walker
03 Christmas ‘20
04 The World Is Standing Still
05 Can't Get Enough Of It
06 Locktown
07 I Wonder How You're Doing
08 Moving On
09 But We Keep On Rocking
10 The River Rhine
11 I Fell In Love With You Again
12 Queen Of Hearts
13 She Don’t Care About Time (Gene Clark)
14 Diamonds And Rust (Joan Baez)
15 Catching Rainbows (Camilla McGuinn/Roger McGuinn)
16 California (Eric Sorensen/H.P. Schmidt)
17 When The Stars Are Dancing (F. Binninger/R. Kowalak)
It is already available at
and will be available at all the major online stores (Amazon, Apple etc...) from June 1st on.
Maybe you’ve got your shot of the vaccine already, but even if you have, get your shot of Starbyrd (and that marvellous Byrds Sound from the 60s) NOW!
Strongly recommended by Byrds Flyght
I’m missing one track by Chris Hillman
If any good soul could send a link to get it, I would be eternally grateful.
The source and the link won’t be published.
Thanks in advance.
“Old Rockin’ Chair” (download only bonus track from “The Other Side” - 2005)
In the process, the Byrds Flyght website that we started in June 1999 will disappear from the Internet.
Although it has not been updated for a long time, it still is a source for all info about the band.
So if you want to save something from there, do it now.
http://users.skynet.be/byrdsflyght/
N.B.: this blog and its mirror at https://byrdsflyght.ucoz.com/blog/ are not linked to Skynet and will continue to be updated.
Rusty Young, co-founder of POCO, died April 14, 2021. He was 75.
He was the only member to have stayed with the band permanently since it was founded in 1968.
Chris Hillman plays mandolin on Poco's "Crazy Eyes" LP from 1973. The title track, "Crazy Eyes" was written by Richie Furay and is about Gram Parsons.
A visitor of this website sent us the following story:
I'm getting rid of my spare copies of Byrds (and related) items.
Details here:
http://byrdsitemsforsale.blogspot.com/
Or write to:
Thank you
Chris Hillman, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Michael Clarke
Digging into our archives, we found this picture of the famous Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers joint performance at the Vancouver Pop Festival in August 1969.
Jimmi Seiter is closely related to the Byrds, having been their roadie, percussionist at concerts, and writer of 7 books about the band.
Kevin Kelley, Chris Hillman, Jimmi Seiter (Sweetheart Of The Rodeo sessions)
He also worked with tens of other acts, such as The Flying Burrito Brothers, Flo & Eddie, The Runaways, David Cassidy, Rocky Burnette, Terry Melcher, Kim Fowley, Brian Wilson, Dobie Gray, Gram Parsons, Jim Morrison And Alice Cooper to name but a few.
He has just created a website called "Echoes From The Canyons"; podcasts telling his side of the story will be published there.
Host is Jimmi's son Ash.
Episode #0 has just been made available at
In the process, the Byrds Flyght website that we started in June 1999 will disappear from the Internet.
Although it has not been updated for a long time, it still is a source for all info about the band.
So if you want to save something from there, do it now.
http://users.skynet.be/byrdsflyght/
N.B.: this blog and its mirror at https://byrdsflyght.ucoz.com/blog/ are not linked to Skynet and will continue to be updated.
Sid Griffin and Chris Hillman
R.I.P. Tom Stevens (The Long Ryders) (January 23, 2021)
Tom Stevens was an American bassist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter with The Long Ryders. He also released albums under his own name and collaborated with many other artists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stevens_(musician)
The reason why his death is mentioned here is because he’s linked to The Byrds:
Gene Clark sang dual lead vocals on some verses of The Long Ryders’ “Ivory Tower” from their "Native Sons" LP
Tom Stevens played bass with Gene Clark and Carla Olson at concerts (see picture)
The Long Ryders opened for Roger McGuinn at McCabe’s in August 1984, with Gene Clark joining McGuinn for two songs.
Chris Hillman joined The Long Ryders on stage for 3 or 4 songs at The Roxy, Hollywood, in November 1986 (see picture of Sid Griffin with Chris Hillman)
Many thanks to him.
We've just been sent a link to an unusual version of "Eight Miles High" by Rufus Harley.
Thanks to Philip Graham for the info.
The Flying Burrito Brothers / Sierra with Mickey McGee (far right)
We just learned that drummer / singer / songwriter William Michael "Mickey" McGee (born October 25, 1947) died of complications from COVID-19 on July 20, 2020.
He was a member of The Flying Burrito Brothers in and out from 1975 to 1981, and appears on the 1977 LP they released under the name “Sierra”.
He was also
a member of the “reunion” Swampwater recording sessions in 1979, replacing original drummer Stan Pratt. These recordings were released in 1987 only on the "Reunion" LP.
He also worked for The Burrito Brothers, Bobby Gentry, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Jim Ringer, Blue Steel, Maureen McGovern, Keith Moon, Ricky Nelson, Jackson Browne, John David Souther, Warren Zevon, Chris Darrow and more.
Our regular correspondent Jean-Pierre Morisset wrote to all 5 surviving members of The Byrds to ask for their comments about Johnny Rogan's passing.
Here are their answers:
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Although he was the drummer for The Byrds' groundbreaking "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" LP, Kevin Kelley is often underrated as a Byrds member. So items about him are rather rare.
Here's a personal handwritten letter he sent on June 1, 1986 to our regular contributor Jean-Pierre Morisset.
Thanks to Jean-Pierre for making it available.
Our regular correspondant David E. sent us these two ads from his collection. Many thanks to him.
He wrote:
"Here's a couple Byrds ads I came across in my collection recently I had forgotten about. The 1969 "Manhattan " show never happened: it was cancelled and later rescheduled."
It is with great sadness that we just learned of the passing of Johnny Rogan in London on February 7, 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rogan
A message from our regular contributor David E.:
Here's a pretty cool site I found that has a lot of posters and ads for Byrds concerts.
Click on each show, then scroll down to the bottom of each page.
https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/the-byrds?page=1#concert-table
We haven't checked yet, but the front page makes us think that this is a mix of performances, not only by The Byrds, but also by Gene Clark's various "Byrds Tribute" lineups and by Michael Clarke's Byrds and later The Byrds Celebration. I mean:
| Jun 09, 1991 | Foghat / The Byrds / Tattoo Rodeo / Aldo Nova | River Jam '91 | Kaukauna, WI |
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SONGS BY BYRDS COVERED BY OTHER ARTISTS
MAY
NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER.
Download
it here:
https://www53.zippyshare.com/v/HlsoHR8t/file.html
Compiled
by David Chirko, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
canartscene.com/members/dchirko & chirkoart.ca
Many thanks to David.
Click to enlarge
Our regular correspondant David E. has sent us a photograph of Gene Clark and his band from 1976.
The band was called The Mendicino Rhythm Section. They took their name from being based in that area
The picture was provided by Jay Dravenstadt.
Jay's accompanying text is as follows:
" This promotional photo was tacked up on the cork board at the entrance to The Oaks Café in 1976.
L-R Steve Davidson, Peter Olivia, GC, Colin McNaughton, Billy Shea, Andy Kandanes.
I thought you’d like to see this since it’s probably
one of the only photos of this band (at least I’ve never seen another ). "
Many thanks to both of them for sharing it.
Margot Cotten from France - she plays all the instruments and sings most of the voices...
"Margot Cotten is the only French girl who can actually play Americana without blushing. Playing drums, guitars and keys, she is a multi-talented singer-songwriter. Make sure to watch her new videos on Sundays. She plays covers by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Elton John, Cat Stevens, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Neil Young, etc... as well as her own material."
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hQmih29I0
The Last Of The Red Hot Burritos is known as the 4th LP by the “original” band (whatever that means).
But it is also the name of a band that is heavily influenced by them.
They have an eponymous album out.
You can listen to all tracks at their Reverbnation page:
https://www.reverbnation.com/lastoftheredhotburritos
Thanks to Mike M for the info.
The band bio:
On a chance meeting several years ago in a CD shop (you know, back when folks bought music in stores) Carl Sweigert and Mike Dialesandro struck up a conversation about Gram Parsons, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and the early days of what came to be the Country Rock genre. They agreed then and there that at some point they should get together and play some of this music with which they both felt a connection.
And play that music they did, in many a late night jam session, with some other musicians they knew, and even in front of an audience or two; but never quite in the fashion they had envisioned that day in the record store.
Fast forward to late 2010 when Carl and Mike called on an old friend, Dave Greenwood, to add a second vocal and guitar to the mix. After some good rehearsals raised the trio's expectations for the project, all that was needed was a great rhythm section. Two long time Northeast Ohio musicians were added: John Gill on drums and Mike McClosky on bass and The Last of the Red Hot Burritos were complete.
The band's show is a bit of a history lesson in the birth of country rock, from pure country stalwarts like Merle and Buck, to the aforementioned Parsons projects, to more modern artists who benefited from the pioneering efforts of those early bands. It's fun, it's up tempo, and it's great music that you don't get to hear that often.
We've just been sent a recording of a 3h 15min Byrds Story (1964-1981) that was broadcast on a Frenchspeaking radio station in 1981.
You can download it here:
https://www109.zippyshare.com/v/OywANwlB/file.html
Here's the track listing. All comments are in French.
01 You Movin’ (The Jet Set)
02 Please Let Me Love You (The Beefeaters)
03 You Showed Me
04 Mr. Tambourine Man
05 All I Really Want To Do
06 Turn! Turn! Turn!
07 Eight Miles High
08 Mr. Spaceman
09 Lady Friend (single only)
10 So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
11 My Back Pages
12 Goin’ Back
13 Nothing Was Delivered
14 Wheels On Fire
15 Old Blue
16 Ballad Of Easy Rider
17 Jesus Is Just Alright
18 It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
19 Child Of The Universe
20 Lay Lady Lay (single only)
21 Chestnut Mare
22 Positively 4th Street
23 Glory, Glory
24 I Wanna Grow Up To Be A Politician
25 Here Tonight (Gene Clark with the original Byrds)
26 Lover Of The Bayou (live in Holland May 1971)
27 You Ain’t Going Nowhere (live in Belgium 1971)
28 Tiffany Queen
29 America’s Great National Pastime
30 Roll Over Beethoven (live Banjoman soundtrack)
31 Cowgirl In The Sand
32 Full Circle
33 My New Woman (Roger McGuinn with the 4 other original Byrds)
34 Hanoi Hannah (Roger McGuinn)
35 Peace On You (Roger McGuinn)
36 Same Old Sound (Roger McGuinn)
37 Somebody Loves You (Roger McGuinn And Band)
38 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Roger McGuinn And Band)
39 Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn with The Rolling Thunder Review – live 1976)
40 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn with The Rolling Thunder Review – live 1976)
41 Up To Me (Roger McGuinn)
42 All Night Long (Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd)
43 American Girl (Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd – live at Rockpalast 1977)
44 Shoot ’em (The Victor Song) (Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd – live at Rockpalast 1977)
45 I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better (McGuinn, Clark & Hillman) (live 1978)
46 Don’t You Write Her Off (McGuinn, Clark & Hillman)
47 Giving Yourself Away (Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman featuring Gene Clark)
48 It Doesn’t Matter (Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman) (live in Brussels 1980)
49 A Secret Side Of You (Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman)
50 Love Me Tonight (Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman)
Jim McGuinn (at left with the long neck banjo) with The New Christy Minstrels.
In 1963, Jim McGuinn was playing with The Chad Mitchell Trio, and was offered to join The New Christy Minstrels. A picture of the group with him is posted above.
Before he had a chance to record or tour with them, he was offered a job by Bobby Darin, which he accepted as Darin offered to double the salary he had with The Chad Mitchell Trio. McGuinn plays on three Capitol LPs by Darin.
You can read the long, complete story of the relationship between Darin and McGuinn, as told by the latter, by going here:
Santo & Johnny – “You Showed Me” (Gene Clark/Jim McGuinn)
Gene Clark – “Till Today”
The Rose Garden – “Till Today” (Gene Clark)
David Hemmings (actor from “Blow-Up”) – “Back Street Mirror” (Gene Clark)
The Rose Garden – “Long Time” (Gene Clark)
Gene Clark interview, by Domenic Priore, 1986 (Part 1)
January 26, 1967 Columbia Session:
Gene Clark – “Back Street Mirror”
Gene Clark – “Don’t Let It Fall Through”
Gene Clark – “Yesterday, Am I Right”
April 24, 1967 Columbia Session:
Gene Clark – “The French Girl” (Ian Tyson/Sylvia Fricker)
Gene Clark – “Only Colombe”
Demos, Late 1967 “Gene Clark Sings For You” Publishing LP:
Gene Clark – “On Her Own”
Gene Clark – “Past Tense”
Gene Clark – “Past My Door”
Gene Clark – “One Way Road”
Gene Clark – “Down on the Pier”
Gene Clark – “”7:30 Mode”
The First A&M Records Gene Clark Session, Mid-’68:
Gene Clark – “Los Angeles”
Gene Clark – “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” (Bob Dylan)
Gene Clark – “That’s Alright By Me”
Gene Clark interview, by Domenic Priore, 1986 (Part 2)
Dillard & Clark – “Why Not Your Baby?” (Gene Clark)
Jackie DeShannon – “Splendor in the Grass” (Jackie DeShannon)
Rick Nelson – “Marshmallow Skies”
Hearts & Flowers – “Colour Your Dayime”
Buffalo Springfield – “Merry Go Round”
The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt – “Fragments: Golden Song/Merry Go Round/Love is a Child”
The Mamas & The Papas – “Boys and Girls Together”
Cher – “Alfie”
The Byrds – “The World Turns All Around Her” (Gene Clark)
The Byrds – “She Don’t Care About Time” (Gene Clark)
The Turtles – “You Showed Me” (Gene Clark/Jim McGuinn)
Special Thanks to Becky Ebenkamp and Whin Oppice for their production and research contributions on this episode.
Philip Graham wrote:
One of my great memories is seeing the Byrds and Burrito Brothers share the
stage at Carnegie hall, when Gram Parsons was still in the band. I caught the
later Rick Roberts era Burritos too, also memorable!
By the way, today
the website "3 Quarks Daily" features my long essay on The Byrds, "My Fan Notes".
It's the confessions of a devoted fan, from 1965 through to the early 1970s.
Your readers might enjoy
it:
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/01/my-fan-notes.html#more-191104
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