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Sunday, June 21, 2020

#1077 – MR. TAMBOURINE MAN – The Byrds – 6/21/2020





55 years ago, this song was released and is a tune that can
correctly be included in the patheon of rock & roll groundbreakers. Jim
McGuinn as he was known at the time of the first 2 years worth of Byrds
recordings, Gene Clark, & David Crosby were the three headed monster that
were the Byrds. They cleared the way for an untold amount of singer-songwriters
in the nightclub in Laurel
Canyon
, San Francisco
& Greenwich Village marrying electric instrumentation with folk music’s
sensitive lyricism. Ironically, this tune is not written by any of these
wordsmiths, but by a fella from Minnesota,
Bobby Zimmerman. Incidentally, it is the only Dylan-penned tuned to every reach
#1 on the any Billboard Chart until 2020’s MURDER MOST FOUL.

1965

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