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To overlook these flaws – if you’re desperate for the Sweetheart of the Rodeo stuff, look (and be ready to pay more) for The Essential Byrds or buy this and the actual Sweetheart album. Getting back to this CD, I do like the price ($9.99 for theĭownload on Amazon, but I saw it tonight for $5.99 at Best Buy), so I’m willing

Just guessing, but I would say it's any or all of the following three reasons: 1) McGuinn and Crosby agreed at the time not to call the band The Byrds because all five weren't involved, and stuck to it, 2) McG, C & H albums were on Capitol, so Columbia didn't want to lease any of the music, 3) they're not very good. This brings up another side issue - I'm not altogether sure why these reunion tracks were billed as "The Byrds" but no songs from the 1979-1980 McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman experiment are on any of these greatest hits sets. Name over Clark and Michael Clarke, who had both toured in recent years withĮrsatz bands billed under the Byrds name). Reunion between McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman in 1990 (to establish claim to the Recorded with Gram Parsons singing lead, and no doubt Columbia wanted buyers toĭrop a bigger chunk of change on that), and three meh songs from a short (possibly because the box set contained songs from that album as originally This is the only single-disk set that contains everything great from theĮverything that’s worth having afterward. Original group, five albums with McGuinn and a bunch of other guys, and Sweethearts of the Rodeo, which sounded The band’s output consists of five albums with most of the The original five members in 1973, the group stayed apart almost for good (more (eleven studio albums over five and a half years?) that the name wound up being With a variety of musicians, but they put out so much product over that time McGuinn carried on for a long time after that Self-destructed pretty quickly – Clark bailed out after two albums, Crosby wasīounced a year after that, and Hillman split after their foray into a more pureĬountry sound, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. He was primarily recruited for his resemblance to Rolling Stone Brian (Drummer Michael Clarke was not a songwriter Two that developed over time (David Crosby and Chris Hillman). Jim McGuinn, who would change his name to Roger a couple of years later) and Talented on their own, with two good songwriters to start with (Gene Clark and Months before Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” The good news is The Byrds were quite Some cachet among folk purists) hit the top in late June of 1965, a full six Tambourine Man” (written by Bob Dylan, which gave it The Byrds were the first folk-rock act to hit the big time –