The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
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Artist: The ByrdsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- You Ain't Going Nowhere - The Byrds, Dylan, Bob
- I Am a Pilgrim - The Byrds, Traditional
- The Christian Life - The Byrds, Louvin, Ira
- You Don't Miss Your Water - The Byrds, Bell, William [1]
- You're Still on My Mind - The Byrds, McDaniel, Luke
- Pretty Boy Floyd - The Byrds, Guthrie, Woody
- Hickory Wind - The Byrds, Buchanan, Bob
- One Hundred Years from Now - The Byrds, Parsons, Gram
- Blue Canadian Rockies - The Byrds, Walker, Cindy
- Life in Prison - The Byrds, Haggard, M.
- Nothing Was Delivered - The Byrds, Dylan, Bob
- You Got a Reputation - The Byrds, Hardin, J.T.
- Lazy Days - The Byrds, Parsons, Gram
- Pretty Polly - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
- The Christian Life - The Byrds, Louvin, Ira
- Life in Prison - The Byrds, Haggard, M.
- You're Still on My Mind - The Byrds, McDaniel, Luke
- One Hundred Years from Now - The Byrds, Parsons, Gram
- All I Have Are Memories - The Byrds, Kelley, K.
Free Music Notes for Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Free Music Review: Gorgeous, beautiful, heartfelt, sincere, one of the greatest albums I've ever had the pleasure to own...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of all time favorite albums, one that I've never gotten tired playing. It is also, I believe, the best album the Byrds ever put out. It gets labeled country rock, but to me, it is country music, pure and simple. It's not an album of a rock band dabbling around with country music, it's an album of a rock band actually playing it and playing it superbly. The feeling and love of this music comes through every note. If you didn't know better, you could have sworn this album was made by a real country band performing at the Grand Ole Opry.
The opener, You Ain't Going Nowhere, is one of the best Dylan covers the Byrds ever did. The song wasn't even recorded by Dylan by this time (it eventually appeared on Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 in a vastly inferior version to the Byrds's rendition). I always think of it as a Byrds song first. The version of the folk classic I Am a Pilgrim is the best I've ever heard. I love The Christian Life. Gram Parsons's vocal is so heartfelt that even non-believers can enjoy the song. Their rendition of You Don't Miss Your Water (a blues/country classic) is the best I've heard as well. Otis Redding covered this song too, but the Byrds give it more soul than Otis (which is not easy to do). I could go on praising every song, but I'll digress for now.
This is as great as any classic country album out there. It's a really special, moving, heartfelt, and beautiful album, made by a very underrated band. It's their best album, and one that grows even more profound and gorgeous everytime you listen to it.
Sweetheart of the Rodeo Poster
Millenium digipak edition, with original artwork and 8 previously unissued bonus tracks, 'You Got A Reputation', 'Lazy Days', 'Pretty Polly', 'The Christian Life' (rehearsal take #11), 'Life In Prison' (rehearsal take #11), 'You're Still On My Mind' (rehearsal take #43), 'One Hundred Years From Now' (rehearsal take #2) & 'All I Have Is Memories' (instrumental). 2001.After Chris Hillman dragged new friend Gram Parsons into the Byrds, they made an album as close to a country masterpiece as a rock act could ever make. In fact, the only tunes better than the definitive covers here of songs by Bob Dylan ("You Ain't Going Nowhere"), Guthrie ("Pretty Boy Floyd"), and the Louvin Brothers ("The Christian Life") are Parsons's originals, especially the incomparable "Hickory Wind." Sweetheart wasn't the first country-rock album, but with its gorgeous three-way harmonies and sweet pedal steel, it remains the best. --David Cantwell
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