Then I heard that song. It plays right at the end of the film but it’s not the final recorded Byrds version. It’s just McGuinn with Gene Parsons on harmonica. Hearing it on the film put the ...

Co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are commemorating the Byrds‘ pioneering 1968 country-rock gem Sweetheart of the ...

The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn ... "I heard the first two songs from the record" — "Don't Want You No More," "It's Not My Cross to Bear" — "on underground FM before it came out and I saw ...

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 ...

The foundational sound of the song is Harrison’s chiming guitar. It likely sounded very familiar to rock audiences when they heard at it, because The Byrds, an American band out of Los Angeles ...

Eight Miles High demonstrates the power of a good arrangment. With bass building like a gathering thundercloud, rumbling guitar chords and tumbling drums usher in Roger McGuinn's memorable four ...

American Songwriter is proud to premiere "The Byrd" a high caliber collaboration between Alex Miller and Tracy Byrd.

Most prominent of them was likely Gram Parsons, who played with Hillman in both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers and died in a California desert hotel room of a drug overdose at age 26. A few ...

Songs & Friends,’ the singer and guitarist weaves Byrds favorites with folk, blues and sea shanties, the core of much of the music produced by the band some called &quot ...

Written in 1967 during the sessions for The Notorious Byrd Brothers, the song, amazingly, failed to make the final cut. DAVID CROSBY: “Triad” was just a hippy dream kind of thing. The time ...