There are a couple of close friends for whom I`ve been intending to buy Christmas gifts, and I think I`ve decided what the gift for both of them will be. It`s a boxed set of four compact discs; the ...
The Byrds almost covered another Bob Dylan track before settling on a folk standard Pete Seeger wrote in the late 1950s.
Roger McGuinn explains how Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan and CBS-era Fender amps all factored into the making of The Byrds’ 1969 classic, Ballad of Easy Rider ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Morgan Elliott The Byrds were a massively influential group whose legacy has faded ...
Anyone who thought the Byrds' debut album was the work of a one-hit wonder based on the commercial success of "Mr. Tambourine ...
In an era when iconic bands are reuniting by the dozen, it's not surprising the Byrds have been approached to revisit their hits on the road. But if you ask principal member Roger McGuinn, the Byrds… ...
The Byrds covered multiple Bob Dylan songs as a band. In some instances, their covers of his songs became more popular than Dylan’s versions. For the most part, Dylan didn’t mind. The Byrds’ take on ...
Byrds co-founder and ace musician Chris Hillman is on the verge of releasing “Bidin’ My Time,” a new album he’s recorded with Tom Petty co-producing, but at his home office and study in Ventura this ...
David Crosby was a crucial voice of both the hippie idealism and the world-weary realism of the classic-rock era. As a founding member of the Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he helped ...
A little late to add to the summer book list, but arriving right in time for those early – ahem – “bird” holiday shoppers will be ‘The Byrds: 1964-1967,’ a large-format, 400-page collectible art book ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. There is an old music joke I point out to the Byrds’ Chris Hillman. It’s about how ...
Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.
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