Fifty years ago, the Byrds released Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and former members of the group are celebrating the anniversary in a big way. On Record Store Day in April, Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness — whose steel guitars […]
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Carla Olson sang, played guitar, and was a leader of the highly respected Los Angeles-based rock band the Textones long before she met Gene Clark. Yet she credits the late Byrds singer for providing her with a musical education. “Gene […]
Gene Clark is finally getting his due. For decades, Roger McGuinn received most of the credit for the Byrds’ impact on rock and roll, tied in with psychedelic, country, and folk music. McGuinn was the unquestioned leader, and there’s no reason […]
Gene Clark is a forgotten genius. Granted, his work with the Byrds earned him considerable repute, the kind that befits a tireless troubadour. Yet, that brief stint in the band — little more than two years apart from the occasional […]
Funny how the circle turns around You think your lost and then you’re found again Though you always look for what you know Each time around it’s something new again — Gene Clark, “Full Circle” Gene Clark wrote those words […]
Rodney Crowell once told me that talking about songwriting is “like doing card trick on the radio.” Everyone who’s ever sat down to write a song quickly discovers the challenge she faces in coming up with a subject about which […]
In 1966, Gene Clark left the Byrds at the peak of their fame for a solo career that must, at the time, have seemed a sure thing. The most prolific and talented songwriter in the group, Clark was also their […]
By the turn of the 1980s, ex-Byrd Gene Clark’s glory days were dwindling fast. Despite three good-to-dazzling mid-1970s solo albums, the major-label crash-and-burn of McGuinn, Clark & Hillman in late 1979 (after such a promising rebirth just two years before) […]
One can only hope Gene Clark, peering in from eternity, is chuckling knowingly at the delays and complications that surrounded the release of this all-too-short retrospective. The final postponement, Polydor’s dissolution of the U.S. A&M label, makes this one an […]
One can only hope Gene Clark, peering in from eternity, is chuckling knowingly at the delays and complications that surrounded the release of this all-too-short retrospective. The final postponement, Polydor’s dissolution of the U.S. A&M label, makes this one an […]
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