Through love and trust it’s gonna work out fine .   Hmm.   Well, that kind of casual stoner commonsense didn’t work out so well in the e...

My research on the origins and development of jangle continue.   I’ve come to the conclusion that Django Reinhardt was the first jangler, w...

Gene Clark’s music has always hit me on a very personal level.   He’s not a great lyricist, but he doesn’t have to be because his voice ...

All this talk about the Byrds got me to thinking about the origins of jangle.   Where did it come from?   The Byrds got it from the Beatle...

Younger than Yesterday , recorded in late ’66 and released in early ’67, was the Byrds’ most eclectic record to date and, perhaps for this ...

If music is an important part of your life, and if you have young children and want them to love music as much as you do, I highly recommen...

I spoke of maturation yesterday, the way it’s a double-edged sword, wisdom and perspective on one side, a loss of innocence on the other.  ...

The songs recorded for and around the time of Fifth Dimension are what change sounds like.   Change and maturation.   Mind you that maturat...

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but when I was a kid my dad had a pretty big record collection, and it was really his records that ...

A few observations I neglected to mention about yesterday’s song… As a solo artist, Gene Clark re-recorded it as a sad, countrified ballad...

Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn Turn Turn after it, both appearing in 1965, are great albums because as a listener you can hear the 60s becom...

The late Gene Clark is, as I mentioned, a tragic sentimentalist and a pop lifer of the very first degree.   Here Without You is his finest ...

The Bells of Rhymney is the prettiest song you’ll ever hear about a mining disaster, and it’s also one of my favorite byrdsongs.  The or...

Tonight I bring you an artifact from the very peak of human civilization.  It’s been all downhill since, which is not to say it’s been all ...