The Notorious Byrd Brothers captures the Byrds between the seminal folk-rock glories of their better-known mid-'60s triumphs and the equally influential country-rock that would soon follow, but the album is no holding action: with onetime Beach Boy associate Gary Usher producing and Roy Halee engineering, the band weaves its signature vocal harmonies and chiming guitars through a lusher, more impressionistic art-pop tapestry that stops just short of post-Sgt...

By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were basically falling apart at the seams. "Ladyfriend", a song written by Crosby, had just failed miserably as a chart single despite the fact that he lobbied hard to get it released...

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the Notorious Byrd Brothers, Younger Than Yesterday, the Byrds' Greatest Hits, the Byrds, History of the Byrds, the Best of the Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume Ii, the Essential Byrds, Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, Forward Into the Past, the Original Singles: 1967-1969, Volume 2, the Original Singles: 1965-1967, Volume 1, the Byrds Play Dylan, Present Tense, the Blue Marble, Super Hits, Going Public...