THE STORY OF A SONG: The Byrds - "Eight Miles High" (1966)

Recorded Jan. 25, 1966; chart debut April 9, 1966 (reached #14 Billboard and #24 in U.K.) Roger McGuinn’s twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar ...

"Ballad of Easy Rider": The Byrds' album

There was certainly no shortage of end-of- decade angst when Easy Rider arrived in July ’69, and the shadows were about to get darker. Short...