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Buy Now	The Byrds - Greatest Hits (more) »rank: 793 by: The Byrds : :The 12-string electric guitar may never recover. As long as there are baby boomers roaming the earth, its airy jangle will signify psychedelic innocence and optimism refracted through the peculiar light of mid-'60s Los Angeles. With Roger McGuinn leading, the Byrds kicked off American rock history with a merger of Bob Dylan's words and the Beatles' melodic energy. The results are here: 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'The Bells of Rhymney,' and 'Eight Miles High' still jump off the airwaves. The midpoint between Dylan and the Beatles is a one-of-a-kind place, where optimism and innocence still sound smart. --Steve Tignor	Buy Now	600 Years Calefax, 1985-2000 (more) »rank: 2464 from: MD&G Records : :The 12-string electric guitar may never recover. As long as there are baby boomers roaming the earth, its airy jangle will signify psychedelic innocence and optimism refracted through the peculiar light of mid-'60s Los Angeles. With Roger McGuinn leading, the Byrds kicked off American rock history with a merger of Bob Dylan's words and the Beatles' melodic energy. The results are here: 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'The Bells of Rhymney,' and 'Eight Miles High' still jump off the airwaves. The midpoint between Dylan and the Beatles is a one-of-a-kind place, where optimism and innocence still sound smart. --Steve Tignor
Buy Now	Sweetheart of the Rodeo (more) »rank: 4051 by: The Byrds :Album Description:Millenium digipak edition, with original artwork and 8 previously unissued bonus tracks, 'You Got A Reputation', 'Lazy Days', 'Pretty Polly', 'The Christian Life' (rehearsal take #11), 'Life In Prison' (rehearsal take #11), 'You're Still On My Mind' (rehearsal take #43), 'One Hundred Years From Now' (rehearsal take #2) & 'All I Have Is Memories' (instrumental). 2001. essential recording:After Chris Hillman dragged new friend Gram Parsons into the Byrds, they made an album as close to a country masterpiece as a rock act could ever make. In fact, the only tunes better than the definitive covers here of songs by Bob Dylan ...	Buy Now	Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 (more) »rank: 6193 by: The Byrds :Album Description:From their earliest days as 12-string-wielding folk-rockers, to the thrilling psychedelic excursions of their raga-rock period to their 1968 birthing of country-rock, the Byrds were always accorded a hero's welcome in England. What better place to record founding Byrds member/guitarist/singer Roger McGuinn's new version of the band--featuring fretboard ace Clarence White, bassist Skip Battin and drummer Gene Parsons--than London's Royal Albert Hall! Rescued from a tape that had sat forgotten in McGuinn's climatized garage for decades, this stellar 1971 set, featuring live versions of the current band's studio faves ('Lover of the Bayou,' 'Chestnut Mare') as well as adventurous reworkings of Byrds ...
Buy Now	Music for Compline (more) »rank: 5650 from: Harmonia Mundi USA :From the label:: On its spectacular debut recording, the exciting young British vocal group stile antico presents a program of English Renaissance music associated with the office of Compline, the service that ends the monastic liturgical day. A who's-who of 16th-century British composers--including Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and John Sheppard--is represented here by hymns, antiphons, responsories, motets, and psalms: the occasion not only for music of intimacy, elegance, and reflection, but for flights of breathtaking canonic and contrapuntal invention and harmonic daring. Stile Antico is an ensemble of young British singers, fast gaining recognition as one of the most original and exciting new ...	Buy Now	Jazz Samba (more) »rank: 8464 by: Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd : essential recording:Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural goodwill tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured by the music, and when he returned, he headed straight for the recording studio to make the now classic Jazz Samba. Collaborating with Stan Getz on tenor sax and backed by a band that included Gene Byrd (bass, guitar), Keter Betts (bass), and Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), Byrd forged a new and brilliant sound. American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style ...
Buy Now	Mr. Tambourine Man (more) »rank: 17375 by: The Byrds :Album Description:Exact repros of the rare mono versions of the first five Byrds albums! Unavailable for over 35 years, we're proud to present the first ever reissues of these monumental recordings in their original, highly-sought-after mono incarnations, cut from the original Columbia Recordings analog mono masters, with perfect artwork restoration and meticulously faithful mastering. essential recording: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 ...	Buy Now	Younger Than Yesterday (more) »rank: 12265 by: The Byrds : essential recording:Four of the five original Byrds were aboard for this folk-rock landmark. Within months of its release in the summer of 1967, David Crosby would move on and the group would enter a permanent period of flux. Younger Than Yesterday, however, finds songwriters Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and Chris Hillman prodding one another with varied but complementary triumphs. 'My Back Pages' is one of their best Dylan covers (and the Byrds had plenty of them), while 'So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star' (written as a jab at the Monkees) represents two minutes of compressed pop cynicism that's as ...
Buy Now	There Is a Season (more) »rank: 8669 by: The Byrds : :A newcomer to the musical progression and legacy of the Byrds could hardly expect to find a better crash course than this: four discs with 99 songs, a DVD of ten previously unissued television performances, extensive annotation. Yet longtime fans of the band might wonder what the point is. Any riches buried in the vaults have long ago been mined--first in 1990's definitive four-disc Byrds box, then on Columbia's series of extended editions of every Byrds album in the catalog, replete with previously unreleased bonus tracks. By this late date, all possible revelations have been revealed, with the five previously unissued performances here ...	Buy Now	The Ultimate Guitar Collection (more) »rank: 11701 from: Sony : :A newcomer to the musical progression and legacy of the Byrds could hardly expect to find a better crash course than this: four discs with 99 songs, a DVD of ten previously unissued television performances, extensive annotation. Yet longtime fans of the band might wonder what the point is. Any riches buried in the vaults have long ago been mined--first in 1990's definitive four-disc Byrds box, then on Columbia's series of extended editions of every Byrds album in the catalog, replete with previously unreleased bonus tracks. By this late date, all possible revelations have been revealed, with the five previously unissued performances here ...