Country rock, now there's a genre of music I know fuck all about. I wouldn't know a Crosby from a Stills, never mind a Nash, if they all jumped up and bit me on the bum. I really like this album though, which I recently discovered while trawling through blog aggregators. It's a 1968 collaboration between The Byrds' Gene Clark and the famous banjo player Doug Dillard and it's called 'The fantastic expedition of Dillard and Clark'. That's the pair of them indulging in a bit of homoerotic goofiness on the front cover.
This is a gleefully loose, rangy and relaxed set of songs, more country than rock, thanks to Dillard's bluegrass banjo riffs. However, Clark's rock heritage shows through too. There is a sparkling, blissed-out clip to songs like 'Lain' down the middle' that could only come from a Byrd.
So pop open a cold beer (not one of those minus five Budweisers though - they're just weird) and sling this one on, err, the MP3 docking station for some good ol' times.
MP3: Dillard and Clark-Out on the Side
4/9/09
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Country rock, now there's a genre of music I know fuck all about. I wouldn't know a Crosby from a Stills, never mind a Nash, if they all jumped up and bit me on the bum. I really like this album though, which I recently discovered while trawling through blog aggregators. It's a 1968 collaboration between The Byrds' Gene Clark and the famous banjo player Doug Dillard and it's called 'The fantastic expedition of Dillard and Clark'. That's the pair of them indulging in a bit of homoerotic goofiness on the front cover.
This is a gleefully loose, rangy and relaxed set of songs, more country than rock, thanks to Dillard's bluegrass banjo riffs. However, Clark's rock heritage shows through too. There is a sparkling, blissed-out clip to songs like 'Lain' down the middle' that could only come from a Byrd.
So pop open a cold beer (not one of those minus five Budweisers though - they're just weird) and sling this one on, err, the MP3 docking station for some good ol' times.
MP3: Dillard and Clark-Out on the Side
Country rock, now there's a genre of music I know fuck all about. I wouldn't know a Crosby from a Stills, never mind a Nash, if they all jumped up and bit me on the bum. I really like this album though, which I recently discovered while trawling through blog aggregators. It's a 1968 collaboration between The Byrds' Gene Clark and the famous banjo player Doug Dillard and it's called 'The fantastic expedition of Dillard and Clark'. That's the pair of them indulging in a bit of homoerotic goofiness on the front cover.
This is a gleefully loose, rangy and relaxed set of songs, more country than rock, thanks to Dillard's bluegrass banjo riffs. However, Clark's rock heritage shows through too. There is a sparkling, blissed-out clip to songs like 'Lain' down the middle' that could only come from a Byrd.
So pop open a cold beer (not one of those minus five Budweisers though - they're just weird) and sling this one on, err, the MP3 docking station for some good ol' times.
MP3: Dillard and Clark-Out on the Side
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Where in the name of God did you find that? Another trip round the charity shops of Dublin?
Doug Dillard, not Gillard. Two totally different musician Dougs. (Tho' I have a feeling that you already knew that.)
Haha thanks. Doug Gillard was in Guided by Voices who I am enamoured with. I have awful dyslexia when it comes to those things. I always cal wolf parade wolf eyes.
Anyway made the correction.
Karl-just through some other blog. I would love to go round the charity shops again sometime soon. I should really buy a record player.
I have to admit to a penchant for a bit of country and alt country but I had not heard this before.
Really cool, I'd say BPB is a fan. Fucked up chorus bit that dips and swells too, which may just because it's old but still sounds great. Maybe a good theme tune for Primavera, lolling about in the sunshine and sipping cold ones. Need to get a cowboy hat - a REAL one.
this track is a stone groove, have to get my hands on this.
yeah Red, the production is something else. The drums are in a soft distant place and the rolling end section is blissful.
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