![]() Tambourine Man" by the Byrds:įolk-rock as a genre was something that was bound to happen sooner rather than later. Today we're going to take a look at one of the pivotal recordings in folk-rock music, a track which, though it was not by any means the first folk-rock record, came to define the subgenre in the minds of the listening public, and which by bringing together the disparate threads of influence from Bob Dylan, the Searchers, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys, manages to be arguably the record that defines early 1965. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. This three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings, while this contains the pre-Byrds recordings the group members did with Jim Dickson. While for the Byrds, I relied mostly on Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, with some information from Chris Hillman's autobiography. I’ve also used Robert Shelton’s No Direction Home, which is less accurate, but which is written by someone who knew Dylan. Heylin also wrote the most comprehensive and accurate biography of Dylan, Behind the Shades. I edited out the half-sentence in question when this was pointed out to me very shortly after uploading.Īs usual, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode (with the exception of the early Gene Clark demo snippet, which I've not been able to find a longer version of).įor information on Dylan and the song, I've mostly used these books:īob Dylan: All The Songs by Phillipe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon is a song-by-song look at every song Dylan ever wrote, as is Revolution in the Air, by Clinton Heylin. The version of this originally uploaded got the date of the Dylan tour filmed for Don't Look Back wrong. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and the start of LA folk-rock. Episode one hundred and twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Mr. ![]()
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