![]() By the way, Hillman makes it clear that Emery was well aware of the song "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" and asked him if he was the one who wrote it. I've also seen versions of this story where Hillman is the one who says "he's dead, Ralph." But in this interview Hillman credits Roger as the one it happened to. My guess is that maybe that exchange happened backstage, or in a pre-interview or rehearsal. Great VersionBob Dylan 30th Anniv of 1st album, 1992Crimson flames tied through my earsRollin' high and mighty trapsPounced with fire on flaming roadsUsin. I was always skeptical of that story, because it seems unlikely they would have broadcast something that made Emery look so foolish. One interesting thing though: Roger has told the story that when he appeared on this show, Emery asked him how Gram Parsons was doing and what he was up these days, and McGuinn had to awkwardly reply "uh, he's dead, Ralph." Obviously that's not in this clip. Hillman said once that McGuinn's conversion to Christianity in 1977 improved his personality: "He is a 100 percent better person. He created the Folk Den in response to e-mail requests by fans to record a folk album.Click to expand. Before long, he had set up Roger McGuinn's Byrds Homepage. An early user of the Internet with a CompuServe account dating back to the mid-'80s, McGuinn began participating in discussions on Usenet groups such as and in the early '90s. Performing without the constraints of a band afforded McGuinn more time to dabble in another love, technology. ![]() He went the troubadour route in 1980 when he felt the group had run its course. We considered ourselves to be folk singers, even though we were using electric instruments."Īfter the group dissolved, McGuinn embarked on a solo career before hooking up with former Byrds mates Gene Clark and Chris Hillman in McGuinn, Clark & Hillman. "What made us different was when we started focusing on our roots bringing in stuff like Turn, Turn, Turn, Bells of Rhymney, John Riley and some of the ballads we knew. "We wanted to be a rock 'n' roll band like the Beatles," McGuinn said. Combining the inspiration of the Beatles and Bob Dylan and a background in traditional folk music, the group created a much-copied blueprint for folk-rock. Instead he wound up forming the Byrds, one of the most influential groups of the '60s. My Back Pages - Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young. "That's what I was doing in the coffeehouses in the Village." "I originally wanted to be a troubadour like Pete Seeger," McGuinn said. It's a show he perfected on Live From Mars, the 1996 album that serves as his autobiography. McGuinn's live show is a combination of song and story that gives the listener a behind-the-scenes look at how some of rock's most revered recordings took shape. (The Headlights, who reunited earlier this year, are now recording their third album, Dempster said.) The band has played off-and-on with McGuinn for years, whenever he's doing a gig that requires a rock beat. With local favorites the Headlights backing him Saturday, he'll do folk-rock songs from throughout his career, as well as Folk Den tunes, said Scott Dempster, bass player with the band. That doesn't mean that McGuinn has forgotten his Byrds classics, which are the focal point of his live solo performances. "I get a lot of e-mail from people in their 20s who tell me they're getting a 12-string guitar and learning these songs." The 81-year-old guitarist was born in Chicago. ![]() ![]() He is also a Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Guitarist and frontman for the folk and rock pioneering group The Byrds. Gene Clark was McGuinn’s bandmate in The Byrds. "The reception has been really good," McGuinn said. Roger McGuinn was born on the 13th of July, 1942. Old Blue chased a possum up a holler limb. I bet you five dollars he’s a A good dog D too. Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue. Yes I had an old dog and his A name was D Blue. Lyrics: Old Blue (trad.) D Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue. McGuinn says the site, which he likens to a coffee-table book, is getting favorable response from young folk fans. But someone always claps in the wrong place and makes everybody laugh. The clips are accompanied by text that includes lyrics, guitar tabs and a brief history of the song. Each month, McGuinn appends another song to the site, which can be accessed through his home page at. In late 1995, as part of his official website, Roger McGuinn launched a feature called The Folk Den, in which each month he recorded a traditional folk song. McGuinn, who lives in the Orlando area but owns a condominium on Indian Rocks Beach, is doing his part to help preserve them through the Folk Den, an Internet site where he posts his own home-taped recordings of old chestnuts such as Old Paint, Home on the Range and John the Revelator.
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