The title track of the Elevators' Girlfriend's Girlfriend  is another song that falls into the category of the Earl Mankey Effect....

Along with the Trees record I talked about a few posts ago, Earle Mankey's finest achievement as a producer is 20/20's self-titled d...

Welcome! I've spent the past three months or so listening to, reflecting on, and writing about the Byrds. This is an index for all 81 p...

As a middle-aged adult, it’s probably asking too much for Byrdsongs to have the same effect on me now as they did when I was eight years ol...

It’s amazing what ten years off the grid did for Roger McGuinn creatively.   Back From Rio is by no means a perfect record, but it’s easily...

Roger McGuinn’s Back From Rio came out while I was living in the UK.   I got to hear him play at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, one of the be...

Chris Hillman had a great deal of success with the Desert Rose Band. But you wouldn't know this unless you listen to FM country statio...

I didn't have any awareness of Earle Mankey when I was a teenager, but I ran out and bought the one and only Tress album, Sleep Conven...

I’ve always had the impression that country music is Chris Hillman’s first love. Rock ‘n roll was just something he did because he’s an acc...

So dig this.   There’s always more to learn.   You never know it all.   I wanted to write about Gene Clark’s cameo appearance on the Long R...

Boy, the layers of tin foil you have to peel away in order to get to tonight’s song are really quite obtrusive.   There’s a very good tune ...

The hippie cum yuppie – or yuppified hippie – is an important demographic to keep in mind in considering the music of the 80s.   Much of wh...

One of PLU's iron-clad axions when it comes to pop music is that if Earle Mankey is involved, it's gonna be good. A few days ago, I...

City is the last album Roger McGuinn was involved in before more or less falling off the grid in the 80s. I don't have a lot of famili...