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Our hand-picked collection of albums from the artists listed here at Honky Tonk
Texas, USA, including our comments and reviews.
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In The Beginning
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
If you are expecting the pristine quality of the early Columbia recordings, you
may want to pass on this one. However, if you are a serious Byrds fan with a
sense of history, you will enjoy it. "In the Beginning" offers a fascinating look at
some of the very earliest sessions by one of the most influential bands of all
time. This set of rehearsal and demo recordings provide a surprisingly
listenable glimpse of The Byrds as they were striving to refine their sound. It
also reaffirms Gene Clark's invaluable role as both songwriter and vocalist. The
sincerity which is evident in all the performances more than compensates for
the rough edges. Highly recommended for all serious Byrds fans!
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Live At The Fillmore [1969]
The Byrds
Price $ 13.99
Recorded at Bill Graham's legendary San Francisco concert hall during two
shows in February 1969, this disc sounds like a practice session recorded in
the morning after a particularly long, rough night. The vocals fall flat too often
and rhythmic cohesion is always one measure away--too many noodly,
irrelevant notes are slathered atop every song. Some of this can be explained
by the absence of one former Byrd. In turning the band towards their
country-rock bent and then splitting after less than a year, Gram Parsons left a
hole that could never really be filled, not even by the nimble-fingered Clarence
White.
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Mr. Tamborine Man {Remastered}
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
It's not overstating the case to contend that the Byrds' debut is the
font from which all folk-rock spouts. The Bob Dylan-penned title track
hit No. 1 two months before the album arrived, in the process
heralding a new sound that braided involved lyrics with a driving beat,
chiming guitars, and vaguely trippy harmonies. The album (and,
indeed, it is an album, rather than a haphazard collection of songs, as
was the standard of the day) followed through on the promise of the
single. Four of the dozen songs on the original pressing were Dylan
compositions, but the originals from Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn
nearly matched their appeal, particularly "I Feel a Whole Lot Better,"
perhaps the quintessential Byrds tune. This 1996 reissue includes a
half-dozen previously unreleased tracks. --Steven Stolder
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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
Price $ 11.49
If I owned only a single album it would be this or Willie's Phases & Stages. An xtra copy goes to the island, just in case. McQuinn cut most of Gram Parsons, but...., just listen to the Hickory Wind blowing silently in the Canadian Rockies. This changed the world. Ask Willie.
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The Best Of The Byrds [Import]
The Byrds
Price $ 8.49
Fourteen Byrd standards recorded somewhere across the sea and probably "Eight Miles High."
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The Best Of The Byrds:Greatest Hits Vol. 2
The Byrds
Price $ 9.97
When this album originally came out in 1972 (a year before the reunion
album--the band's last), this Greatest Hits II made a lot of sense. The Byrds
previous two albums especially (Byrdmaniax and Farther Along) contained
some fairly weak tracks. So compiling a "greatest hits" album (though none of
these even cracked the Top 40) was a golden opportunity to compile all the
best tracks between 1968's The Notorious Byrd Brothers (not Sweetheart of
the Rodeo as the previous reviewer indicated) through 1971's Farther Along.
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The Byrds [Box Set]
The Byrds
Price $ 47.47
A Box Set: To the contrary, the original Byrds albums definitely ARE worth
owning--specifically the first six: "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn! Turn! Turn!,"
"Fifth Dimension," "Younger Than Yesterday," "The Notorious Byrd Brothers"
and "Sweetheart of the Rodeo." All of the above titles have been reissued by
Columbia/Legacy with great booklet essays, photos, etc.; best of all, a
generous number of bonus tracks (some of them utterly brilliant) have been
appended to each CD. Moreover, many of the group's most enduring numbers
have been left off the box set: the Gene Clark classics "Here Without You" and
"Set You Free This Time"; their treatments of "Wild Mountain Thyme" and
"Satisfied Mind"; "Change Is Now," etc.
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The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
The Notorious Byrd Brothers captures the Byrds between the
seminal folk-rock glories of their better-known mid-'60s triumphs and
the equally influential country-rock that would soon follow, but the
album is no holding action: with onetime Beach Boy associate Gary
Usher producing and Roy Halee engineering, the band weaves its
signature vocal harmonies and chiming guitars through a lusher,
more impressionistic art-pop tapestry that stops just short of
post-Sgt. Pepper cliché, employing phased vocals, sound effects,
Moog synthesizer, and horns.
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