Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Album • The Byrds
Album • 1968
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (Legacy Edition)
The Byrds39 songs • 1 hour, 45 minutes
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released in August 1968 by Columbia Records. Recorded with the addition of country rock pioneer Gram Parsons, it became the first album widely recognized as country rock as well as a seminal progressive country album, and represented a stylistic move away from the psychedelic rock of the band's previous LP, The Notorious Byrd Brothers. The Byrds had occasionally experimented with country music on their four previous albums, but Sweetheart of the Rodeo represented their fullest immersion into the genre up to that point in time. The album was responsible for bringing Parsons, who had joined the Byrds in February 1968 prior to the start of recording, to the attention of a mainstream rock audience for the first time. Thus, the album is an important chapter in Parsons' crusade to make country music fashionable for a young audience. The album was conceived as a history of 20th-century American popular music, encompassing examples of country music, jazz and rhythm and blues, among other genres. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweethe...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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