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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo: Legacy Edition (Digipak) (CD)

By: The Byrds (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Sweetheart Of The Rodeo: Legacy Edition (Digipak) (CD) Album By The Byrds (Artist)
1   You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2   I Am A Pilgrim
3   Christian Life, The
4   You Don't Miss Your Water
5   You're Still On My Mind
6   Pretty Boy Floyd
7   Hickory Wind
8   One Hundred Years From Now
9   Blue Canadian Rockies
10   Life In Prison
11   Nothing Was Delivered
12   All I Have Are Memories - (previously unreleased, Kevin Kelley vocal)
13   Reputation
14   Pretty Polly
15   Lazy Days
16   Christian Life, The - (Gram Parsons vocal)
17   You Don't Miss Your Water - (Gram Parsons)
18   One Hundred Years From Now - (Gram Parsons vocal)
19   Radio Spot
 
DISC 2 for Sweetheart Of The Rodeo: Legacy Edition (Digipak) (CD) Album By The Byrds (Artist)
1   Sum Up Broke
2   One Day Week
3   Truck Drivin' Man
4   Blue Eyes
5   Luxury Liner
6   Strong Boy
7   Lazy Days - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
8   Pretty Polly - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
9   Hickory Wind - (previously unreleased, first time on CD)
10   Christian Life, The - (previously unreleased, Gram Parsons vocal)
11   Christian Life, The - (previously unreleased, Gram Parson vocals)
12   Life In Prison - (previously unreleased, Gram Parsons vocal)
13   Life In Prison - (previously unreleased, Gram Parson vocals)
14   One Hundred Years From Now - (previously unreleased, Gram Parsons vocal)
15   One Hundred Years From Now - (previously unreleased, alternate take, Gram Parsons vocal)
16   You're Still On My Mind - (previously unreleased, Gram Parsons vocal)
17   You're Still On My Mind - (previously unreleased, Gram Parson vocals)
18   All I Have Are Memories - (previously unreleased, TRUE instrumental)
19   All I Have Are Memories - (previously unreleased, alternate take, TRUE instrumental)
20   Blue Canadian Rockies - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (6/12/97, p.114) - "...Remixed and reshuffled, with Gram Parsons' vocals front and center, this sparkling reissue gives revisionist history a good name..."
Rolling Stone (9/14/68, p.20) - "...The material they've chosen to record, or rather, the way they perform the material, is simple, relaxed and folky. It's not pretentious, it's pretty. The musicianship is excellent..."
Entertainment Weekly (4/4/97, pp.81-82) - "...sounds sharper [than the original pressing]...and outtakes featuring Gram Parsons add a rustic postscript. Anyone taken with the '90s alt-country of Wilco should visit this more authentic RODEO..." - Rating: A
Q (9/00, p.134) - Included in Q's "Best Alt.Country Albums Of All Time".
Q (4/97, p.140) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...their most influential album, a landmark at a crucial junction on pop's long, dusty road..."
Down Beat (8/97, p.61) - 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...the best of the pack....a full immersion into bluegrass, country and gospel..."
Dirty Linen (12/03, p.59) - "...Without a doubt the album most influential for generations of musicians interested in fusing country and rock..."
Musician (6/97, p.86) - "...there was a time before the Eagles, when the Byrds made the steel guitar acceptable to hippies...The 20-bit remastering seems to add overtones to everything without adding anything to the price, and the five extra cuts...offer an illuminating glimpse into how they worked..."

Title Note

The Byrds: Roger McGuinn (vocals, guitar, banjo); Gram Parsons (vocals, guitar); Chris Hillman (vocals, bass, mandolin); Kevin Kelley (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: John Hartford (guitar, banjo); Clarence J. White (guitar); Lloyd Green, Jaydee Maness (steel guitar); Earl P. Ball (piano); Roy M. Huskey (bass); Jon Corneal (drums)

Includes liner notes by David Fricke.

In the same year that Bob Dylan stepped back from his electric pilgrimages by releasing an album of roots-oriented morality tales, the Byrds took a symbolic flight to Nashville. Gone was Roger McGuinn's singular 12-string guitar sound and the acid rock that had had an effect on everyone from the Monkees to the Velvet Underground. McGuinn now played banjo, and bassist Chris Hillman doubled on the mandolin, both seemingly reconsidering their musical approaches. And while Dylan remained the songwriter of choice, his tunes now sat alongside a rearranged hymn ("I Am a Pilgrim"), a bluegrass version of a famous outlaw tale (Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd"), and a cover of the Louvin Brothers ("The Christian Life"). This was a musical turn, turn, turn, indeed.

The obvious catalyst for all this reconstruction was the arrival of young Gram Parsons, and SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO played as if it was his coming-out party. He introduced Hillman and McGuinn to a musical world that seemed totally foreign to these predecessors of the Summer of Love, but one which lay a scant hundred miles outside their L.A. windows, in Bakersfield. Parsons' most important act was to help shape the overall sound of the album, but he contributed two original songs as well--"One Hundred Years From Now" and "Hickory Wind," a signature composition he'd record again. SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO caused an entire musical community to reconsider the musical traditions of America.

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