Talking about his generation, Roger McGuinn refuses to dwell on the steady stream of deaths of such icons of popular music as David Bowie (at 69) and Glenn Frey (at 67) in the first three months of 2016.
“It’s part of life,” the 74-year-old co-founder of the folk-rock supergroup The Byrds said last week in a telephone interview from his home in Florida. “I don’t really focus on it. It’s going to happen when it happens.”
And so the veteran singer-guitarist isn’t sitting around waiting for the Grim Reaper to knock on his door. With his one-man show of songs and stories, which he’ll perform at the Woodstock Town Hall Theatre next Thursday night, he’s still touring the world.
After spending the late summer of 2015 in Hawaii and mid-autumn on the West Coast, he performed twice in Japan in November. And after a winter break and a few early-March shows down South, the Chicago-born McGuinn and his 12-string Rickenbacker are hitting the road again starting Friday night in Tennessee, on an East Coast swing through mid-May in support of the 20th-anniversary edition of The Folk Den Project, a four-CD box set of his 100 favorite songs that just came out this week.
“Retirement is the precursor to death,” McGuinn said. “I’ve seen it happen a lot of times. I have no desire or plans to retire.
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