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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968)

Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968) Legacy Edition (2 CD Remaster)

  The Byrds 6th album would be the one to take them away from the psychedelic sounds into the country-psych tinged arena.  This transformation was enabled with the addition into their lineup of Country rock icon Gram Parsons who brought clearly a whole new dimension to this band.  The end result is a country-rock-psych album full of deep harmonies and great twangy songs.  IMHO this was the Byrds definitive statement musically  and an album I have not stopped playing since the day I discovered this. 

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