Album of the day (#1687): Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

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Today's album of the day

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo by The Byrds (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1968.
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Overall rank: 749
Average rating: 77/100 (from 202 votes).

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Tracks:
1. You Ain't Going Nowhere
2. I Am A Pilgrim
3. The Christian Life
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

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[dmercado]

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This album is fantastic and incredibly important in the development of both country and rock. On one end, it updated country music to the recent developments in laid back singing style, front-and-center drumming, electric guitar picking techniques, and organ wall of sound. On the opposite end, it brought fiddles, banjos, and a slight southern drawl to the folk rock that The Byrds crafted, helping bring form to new genre of roots rock.

The efforts made by Gram Parsons here and through the remainder of his life strengthened the variety and audience of rock music in the United States and would go on to inspire outlaw country, southern rock, roots rock, country rock - artists like Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt, Waylon Jennings, Wilco, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, The Allman Brothers, Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes - they owe a big debt to his efforts at marrying country to rock. And this album is a great showcase of what he did.
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[SleepDealer]

It's a nice album.

[decemberhotel]

I was just listening to this one. Very good indeed.

[NickVolos]

Seminal album. Quite possibly the album that put Country-Rock on the genre map...
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[sp4cetiger]

This is very nice. I prefer Parsons' solo work by a bit, though.

[Secondsoul]

Aaah, this is the Byrds. Thought for one scary moment there that James Otto had got Album of the day!

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[Romanelli]

This is one album where you do want the bonus tracks. When it was discovered that Parsons was already under contract with another label, McGuinn took the opportunity to re-record half of the tracks that Parsons had sung lead on, because Parsons was dominating the album. Those Parsons versions are available on the 2003 Legacy edition. The songs that McGuinn replaced Parsons' vocals on are "The Christian Life", "You Don't Miss Your Water", and "One Hundred Years From Now".

This is a stunning album, and is just as important (and every bit as good) as his solo work. It's also the best Byrds album, and their last important release. Alt country, highly under appreciated here, owes a ton to this album.
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