THE BYRDS SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO ORIG 2-EYE COLUMBIA LP VERY NICE 1968
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Here is an EXCELLENT MINUS! LP by THE BYRDS titled SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO. It is an ORIGINAL! US pressing on the “2-EYE” COLUMBIA label, catalog #CS 9670 in “360” STEREO sound and released in 1968. The vinyl is in NEAR MINT MINUS/EXCELLENT PLUS! condition shiny and black with light wispy non-sounding hairlines and should have excellent playback. The cover is in EXCELLENT MINUS.VERY GOOD PLUS! condition with mild paper chipping along edges, surface/ring wear, corner and edge wear. It is an opportunity to purchase this LP by THE BYRDS in this condition. It’s a true gem for the COUNTRY-ROCK / FOLK-ROCK / PSYCHEDELIC ROCK / GARAGE ROCK / ROCK collector! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. SHIPPING IN THE US IS $4.00 for MEDIA MAIL. I COMBINE SHIPPING SO US BUYERS PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE! Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!
Music Review from AllMusic.com by Mark Deming
The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was not the first important country-rock album (Gram Parsons managed that feat with the International Submarine Band's debut Safe at Home), and The Byrds were hardly strangers to country music, dipping their toes in the twangy stuff as early as their second album. But no major band had gone so deep into the sound and feeling of classic country (without parody or condescension) as The Byrds did on Sweetheart; at a time when most rock fans viewed country as a musical "L'il Abner" routine, The Byrds dared to declare that C&W could be hip, cool, and heartfelt. Though Gram Parsons had joined the band as a pianist and lead guitarist, his deep love of C&W soon took hold, and Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman followed his lead; significantly, the only two original songs on the album were both written by Parsons (the achingly beautiful "Hickory Wind" and "One Hundred Years from Now"), while on the rest of the set classic tunes by Merle Haggard, the Louvin Brothers, and Woody Guthrie were sandwiched between a pair of twanged-up Bob Dylan compositions. While many cite this as more of a Gram Parsons album than a Byrds set, given the strong country influence of McGuinn's and Hillman's later work, it's obvious Parsons didn't impose a style upon this band so much as he tapped into a sound that was already there, waiting to be released. If The Byrds didn't do country-rock first, they did it brilliantly, and few albums in the style are as beautiful and emotionally affecting as this.
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