SINGAPORE - Many might know Roger McGuinn for his time with The Byrds, but there’s more to the man than just being the lead singer of a band that excelled in reinterpreting folks song into palatable pop. In this CD/DVD set, McGuinn sets about telling the story of his life in music. Taken from a concert he did in 2012, the album opens, rather appropriately, with My Back Pages, the Bob Dylan track he covered while still in The Byrds.
This time round, there is no band backing him, it’s just McGuinn and his guitars and banjo. And in true troubadour style, McGuinn regales audiences with tales of his life in-between songs in his soft-spoken style. He tells of how his appreciation for folk music was born and how he embraced the various genres - classical, country, folk, rock and jazz (his solo on Eight Miles High, for example, was not a nod to psychedelic rock, which was big at the time, but his attempt at mimicking John Coltrane) - to create a sound that was wholly his own.
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THE BYRDS AT GONZO
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