American fiddle player Byron Berline died at the age of 77 of complications of a stroke. He joined The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1971, worked withStephen Stills's band Manassas and played on ‘Country Honk’ on theRolling Stones' albumLet It Bleed. He also worked with many other artists i...
in the final version included on their debut, meisner took the lead vocal, his softer, higher voice adding to the lyrics’ mournful quality. “we had a natural tenor singer in randy meisner,” leadon says. “and in henley too. so we had two guys that could go up high and not be ...
athe warm South, nostalgia for the rural past, etc.) in their lyrics. Such themes and the country-style melodies to which they were set were developed in different ways by the Eagles, The Band, the Byrds, Gram Parsons (at first with the Byrds, then with the Flying Burrito Brothers, ...
we find here the first frail flowerings of a creative rebound for McCartney, as he sets a smart little reed-honking groove, then barks out the lyrics with a whiskey-shot of vigor. For all of the times he'd
"I think everybody got higher than they ever imagined anybody could be." That's how Glenn Frey, in the 'History of the Eagles' documentary, recalled the peyote ritual the band undertook while in Joshua Tree on the photo shoot for its first album cover. "And it was a good thing. We ...