Co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are commemorating the Byrds’ pioneering 1968 country-rock gem Sweetheart of the Rodeo on a brand new 24-song stay album recorded with Marty Stuart.

Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Celebrate the fiftieth Anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo is out at this time by way of Friday Music. Exclusive bundles embody a poster, T-shirt and live performance laminate. See an entire observe itemizing under.

Recorded throughout a 27-show fiftieth anniversary tour in 2018, the LP was beforehand solely out there as a limited-edition Record Store Day vinyl launch. “It was one of the best tours — if not the best — I was ever on in 60 years of being in music,” Hillman mentioned in an official assertion. “Every night was exciting.”

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Singer-songwriter Gram Parsons and drummer Kevin Kelley, the different two official members of the Byrds at the time, have each died. So members of Stuart’s band, the Fabulous Superlatives, rounded out the lineup. “I love the songs and playing with wonderful musicians,” McGuinn mentioned. “I loved playing with Marty and the Superlatives, and Chris too. It’s a great band to play with, and they are pros.”

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Songs for the stay album have been chosen Stuart’s audio engineer Mick Conley, who additionally served as producer. They included the full studying of Sweetheart of the Rodeo, in addition to associated songs like Hillman’s seminal “Time Between,” Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages” and the Hillman-McGuinn collaboration “Old John Robertson.” Instruments from the unique classes have been additionally featured.

The reveals usually ended with encore performances of two Byrds classics, “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!” Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Celebrate the fiftieth Anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo additionally features a final-night rendition of “Eight Miles High,” carried out for the first and solely time throughout this tour.

Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Celebrate the fiftieth Anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo Track Listing
“My Back Pages”
“A Satisfied Mind”
“Mr. Spaceman”
“Time Between”
“Old John Robertson”
“Wasn’t Born to Follow”
“Sing Me Back Home”
“Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man”
“Mr. Tambourine Man”
“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”
“Pretty Boy Floyd”
“Hickory Wind”
“Life In Prison”
“One Hundred Years From Now”
“Nothing Was Delivered”
“Blue Canadian Rockies”
“The Christian Life”
“You’re Still on My Mind”
“You Don’t Miss Your Water”
“I Am a Pilgrim”
“So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star”
“I Feel a Whole Lot Better”
“Eight Miles High”
“Turn! Turn! Turn!”