The Byrds

Just a week after several of the highest-profile members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gathered in New York for the hall's 25th anniversary blowout concerts at Madison Square Garden, another member of that elite pack was setting up in a very different environment. Read More

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According to a recent Gallup poll, the Congressional approval rating has fallen to a whopping 21 percent. Read More

"I come and stand at every door, but no one hears my silent tread. I knock and yet remain unseen, for I am dead, for I am dead." Read More

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense. Read More

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and former lead singer of The Byrds Roger McGuinn said he's looking forward to his upcoming trip to Austin. Read More

After a controversial slot at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry in March '68, Skeeter Davis found The Byrds in the parking lot. Read More

I have a hunch people of my generation have a very different view of David Crosby than our parents do. Read More

The 1971 edition of the Byrds (Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Skip Battin, Gene Parsons) were passé where rock's tastemakers were concerned. Read More

The latest in Columbia's impressive Essential series may be the best of the lot, a two-CD compilation whose 44 tracks cover just about every important nook and cranny of The Byrds' illustrious career, from the early flights of Dylan covers and Gene Clark classics, through the proto-psychedelia of Fifth Dimension and Younger Than Yesterday and the proto-country-rock of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, to the often overlooked highlights of their subsequent slow decline. Read More