Links; Reviews; Personnel

Links: The Byrds speak on Ballad Of Easy Rider

Reviews: Adrian's Album Reviews     AllMusic     BlogCritics     Don Ignacio's Music Reviews    John McFerrin's Music Reviews    Only Solitaire     Pretty Goes with Pretty     Rising Storm     Robert Christgau Consumer Guide Reviews    Rolling Stone     Ultimate Classic Rock     Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews

Track listing: Ballad of Easy Rider / Fido / Oil in My Lamp / Tulsa County Blue [a.k.a. Tulsa County] / Jack Tarr the Sailor / Jesus Is Just Alright / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / There Must Be Someone / Gunga Din / Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) / Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins

1997 reissue bonus tracks: Way Behind the Sun / Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood / Oil in My Lamp [Alternate Version] / Tulsa County Blue [Alternate Version] / Fiddler a Dram (Moog Experiment) / Ballad of Easy Rider [Long Version] / Build It Up [Instrumental]

Personnel: Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals), Clarence White (lead guitar, vocals), John York (electric bass, vocals), Gene Parsons (drums, guitar, banjo, vocals). Roger McGuinn plays Moog synthesizer and banjo on Fiddler a Dram

Additional Personnel: Byron Berline (fiddle on Tulsa County Blue and Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood), Glen D. Hardin (organ on Gunga Din), Terry Melcher (backing vocal on It's All Over Now, Baby Blue), string section on Ballad Of Easy Rider and Jesus Is Just Alright



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