Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman & Marty Stuart - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 50th Anniversary - Live Deluxe Gold Vinyl, Autographed, Tour T-Shirt Limited Edition Vinyl LP

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CELEBRATE 5 DECADES OF THE BYRDS' "SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO" WITH FRIDAY MUSIC & THE LEGENDARY BYRDS' ROGER McGUINN & CHRIS HILLMAN & MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES!

 * SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO-50th ANNIVERSARY LIVE BUNDLE -SUPER LIMITED EDITION

THIS EXCLUSIVE FRIDAY MUSIC BUNDLE INCLUDES:

* STUNNING 2 LP GOLD VINYL ALBUM

* AUTHENTIC SIGNED & NUMBERED TOUR POSTER BY THE LEGENDARY BYRDS' ROGER McGUINN &  CHRIS HILLMAN ALONG WITH COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR MARTY STUART

* SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO TOUR TEE SHIRT RANDOM SIZE SENT

* SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO BACKSTAGE PASS

* CELEBRATING THE ALBUM THAT CHANGED COUNTRY AND ROCK MUSIC FOREVER!

* 24 STELLAR SONGS!

* CAPTURED LIVE DURING THEIR PHENOMENAL 23-CITY, 27-SHOW 50TH ANNIVERSARY "SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO" SOLD-OUT TOUR

* STRIKING GATEFOLD COVER ART WITH TOUR PHOTOS

* INCLUDES THE ACCLAIMED & AUTHORIZED JO MORA "SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO" ELEMENTS IN THE ARTWORK

* EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES & RECENT INTERVIEWS WITH ROGER, CHRIS & MARTY

* PRODUCED BY MICK CONLEY (MARTY STUART, DANNY O'KEEFE, KATHY MATEA)

* MASTERED IMPECCABLY BY LONG-TIME BYRDS RE-ISSUE PRODUCER JOE REAGOSO (THE BYRDS/SOUTHER HILLMAN & FURAY/FIREFALL)

* FEATURES 24 BYRDS CLASSICS & STELLAR LIVE VERSIONS INCLUDING: "MR. TAMBOURINE MAN" "TURN! TURN! TURN!" "EIGHT MILES HIGH," "SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK 'N' ROLL STAR," "YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE," "THE CHRISTIAN LIFE," "ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW," "PRETTY BOY FLOYD," "SATISFIED MIND," "I AM A PILGRIM" & "I FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER"

MUSICIANS INCLUDE: ROGER McGUINN, CHRIS HILLMAN, MARTY STUART, KENNY VAUGHAN, CHRIS SCRUGGS & HARRY STINSON

"An unalloyed joy to see McGuinn and Hillman resurrect this piece of their legacy. 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' was meant to be heard and not merely revered."

-The Washington Post

"'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' sounds pure and unfiltered, as resonant and lived-in as it did back in 1968…. Age has brought a timely resonance to these tunes, which wasn't possible when the guys singing were still in their 20s."

-Dallas Observer

In 2018, Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman teamed up with country and bluegrass star Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives for a 50th-anniversary salute to the Byrds' watershed 1968 album "Sweetheart of the Rodeo," a work that helped usher in the whole genre of country-rock music.

Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" on Friday Music, featured on a stunning 2 Lp Gold Vinyl Set, which includes tour photos & the historic Jo Mora "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" album cover elements.   

The album includes 24 amazing tracks, selected from various stops on the 23-city, 27-show tour by Stuart's audio engineer and the album's producer, Mick Conley (Marty Stuart). It was mastered impeccably by long-time Byrds re-issue producer Joe Reagoso.

Over the decades, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" has become widely recognized as a flashpoint in the emergence of country-rock music and for helping lay down a template for what eventually would be known as Americana music, that invigorating amalgam of rock, country, blues, folk, and gospel music. Rolling Stone ranked it at No. 120 on its 500 Greatest Albums.

"I love the songs and playing with wonderful musicians," McGuinn says. "I loved playing with Marty, the Superlatives, and Chris. It's a great band to play with, and they are pros. This is the best-sounding Byrds record ever made! It was a privilege to work with this band."

"It was one of the best tours—if not THE best—I was ever on in 60 years of being in music. Every night was exciting," Hillman says. "I couldn't think of anybody else to do that presentation with other than Marty and the Superlatives," including bassist/steel guitarist Chris Scruggs, guitarist Kenny Vaughan and drummer Harry Stinson. "Listening to this live recording puts me right back on stage with Roger, Marty, Kenny, Harry and Chris," Hillman adds.

Stuart echoed these sentiments. "Everybody won," he said recently. "That's my thought: As a band, we got to be the Byrds, and Roger and Chris got to be Roger and Chris without having to put up with

anything that had to do with band life, and the audience saw things and heard things that they never thought they'd ever see again or have never heard or seen before, right?"

Beyond the joys of the musical performances, the "Sweetheart 50th" tour treated audiences to something of a master class in the evolution of country rock. The album includes songs written and recorded well before Sweetheart to show the musical road that led to the album. These include Hillman's early country-rock song "Time Between," Bob Dylan's "My Back Pages," and Porter Wagoner's 1955 country classic "Satisfied Mind." Also included is "Old John Robertson," the folk-country ballad Hillman and McGuinn collaborated on.

The second part of the evening and the album are devoted to the "Sweetheart" songs, all of which McGuinn, Hillman, Stuart, and the Superlatives played using the original arrangements, although not in the original album's sequence. However, that portion of the show did start with the same song that opens the album, "You Ain't Going Nowhere." McGuinn credits his wife, Camilla, for the structure and script of the narrative used at each show.

One of the impressive things about "Sweetheart" was the diversity of the material: from two previously unreleased Dylan songs—"You Ain't Going Nowhere" and "Nothing Was Delivered"—and Woody Guthrie's classic fable of social injustice, "Pretty Boy Floyd," to Haggard's sobering country ballad "Life in Prison," the Louvin Brothers' country gospel tune "I Like the Christian Life," Parson's timeless contributions—"Hickory Wind" and "One Hundred Years From Now," both sung here by Hillman--and Memphis musician William Bell's soulful slice of romantic longing, "You Don't Miss Your Water." The differences between the versions the Byrds laid down 50 years earlier and what McGuinn, Hillman, Stuart, and the Superlatives put forth from the stages are both significant and subtle.

Following the ovations the six musicians typically received, they returned nightly for an encore segment that included two more Byrds classics: "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Turn! Turn! Turn! On the final night of the tour, however, on a cool mid-December night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., they added the tour's only live performance of "Eight Miles High," which was fortunately recorded and included here.

"Any intimations of mortality went unspoken," Chris Willman wrote for Variety in his review of the first L.A. "Sweetheart" concert in 2018, "but it was … that much more moving that McGuinn and Hillman are here to do this in their 70s… and to do it so well, after showing no particular urgency about reliving their past in intervening decades. "To everything, there is a season," he concluded, "but the Americana movement, which had such a huge part in kickstarting, hasn't been off-season since. Bully for them for acceding to a characteristically gentle victory lap."

Friday Music is very pleased to present this wonderful recording. It will be one of the most important albums released this year. Please join Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives as we enjoy the sounds that can only be known as "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo."

Tracks:

LP 1

SIDE 1

1. My Back Pages
2. A Satisfied Mind
3. Mr. Spaceman
4. Time Between
5. Old John Robertson
6. Wasn't Born To Follow

SIDE 2

1. Sing Me Back Home
2. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
3. Mr. Tambourine Man
4. You Ain't Going Nowhere
5. Pretty Boy Floyd
6. Hickory Wind

LP 2

SIDE 3

1. Life In Prison
2. One Hundred Years From Now
3. Nothing Was Delivered
4. Blue Canadian Rockies
5. The Christian Life
6. You're Still On My Mind

SIDE 4

1. You Don't Miss Your Water
2. I Am A Pilgrim
3. So You Want To Be A Rock N' Roll Star
4. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
5. Eight Miles High
6. Turn! Turn! Turn!

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