Younger Than Yesterday is a Wunderkammer of jangles. In virtually every case, a jangle is a warning that a white man is about to cut to what he perceives to be the heart of the matter in a way that is at once earnest and coolly detached, sunny and in shades. Jangles lend themselves especially well to introductions, where the intricacy of their glimmering wiry webs can be admired before the singing starts. It’s often an accompanimental texture, but just as often-deemed sufficiently pleasing on its own-it accompanies nothing. The jangle is a kind of figuration, an element of musical material that occupies the foreground-most parallax plane. (The Replacements’ Let It Be is a catalog of embittered, dysphoric anti-jangles.) In far-flung Manchester, Johnny Marr became the preeminent jangler of his or perhaps any generation in Glasgow, Edwyn Collins wore his fringe, by his own admission, like Roger McGuinn’s. The Byrds compelled the Hang-Ups and the Jayhawks to jangle up one side of Hennepin Ave. and Love Tractor, the Antipodean jangle of the Go-Betweens and the Church. It’s because the Byrds jangled that we have the Athenian jangle of R.E.M. The Grammy winner is also a prolific solo artist who has released five albums since 2014.Keys jangle. David Crosby is a two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his work with The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He is, as Tom Petty once wrote, 'the man who invented country rock.' Roger McGuinn is a Grammy nominee and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame who best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for The Byrds. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Chris Hillman is a founding member of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and The Desert Rose Band. Scott was raised in Nashville and now lives in California, where he, his wife, and their two very large dogs split their time between Los Angeles and Idyllwild. He has earned two Grammy nominations in the category of Best Album Notes, and co-hosts the podcast, Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters. Bomar is an award-winning writer, researcher, and music historian who has authored or co-authored six books, including How Sweet It Is (with Lamont Dozier), Every Night is Saturday Night (with Wanda Jackson), and Southbound: An Illustrated History of Southern Rock. Featuring more than 500 images from legendary photographers such as Henry Diltz, Barry Feinstein, Curt Gunther, Jim Marshall, Linda McCartney, Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal, and Guy Webster, the book also includes a detailed oral history from McGuinn, Hillman, and Crosby. They had those great clothes and hairdos.” Now the band’s three surviving founding members-Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and David Crosby-have come together to present The Byrds: 1964-1967, a large format tabletop book that offers a unique visual history of the group. “And not to be too shallow,” Tom Petty once wrote, “but they also were just the best-dressed band around.

They incorporated folk, country, and jazz, influences into a fresh blend that helped define an era. With their unmistakable harmonies and Roger McGuinn’s innovative 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, the Byrds never stopped experimenting. Tambourine Man” in 1965, they introduced Bob Dylan’s songs to a new audience and launched a career that would make them among the most influential rock bands of all time. A new large-format 400-page collectible art book curated by the band’s three surviving founding members.

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