Ballad of Easy Rider (album)

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Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth studio album by the American folk rock band The Byrds, the ninth, if you count their Greatest Hits album. It was released on October 29, 1969 on the label, Columbia Records. In the United States the album was # 36 on the pop charts, UK # 41 Thanks to the return of Terry Melcher, the producer of the first two Byrds albums, Ballad of Easy Rider was a far bigger success than its predecessor, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde among fans and critics.

As Roger McGuinn was in the development phase of the album mainly busy to compose the music for Jacques Levy's pop version of Peer Gynt and the three other members in the songwriting had little experience, Ballad of Easy Rider is mainly composed of cover versions of songs by other artists. From each member of the band is only ever contain a self- penned song. McGuinn contributed the title track, which had already appeared in a solo version of him on the Easy Rider soundtrack.

Two singles were released from the album. Ballad of Easy Rider with Oil B-side in My Hand was released on October 1, before the album's release, and peaked in the U.S. singles chart # 65 Jesus Is Just Alright, that the Doobie Brothers in 1972 made ​​it a hit, only came on 15 December on the market and only came to # 97 B- side was a new version of the Bob Dylan song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by the Byrds had already been included in the original cast in 1965, but at that time not be published.

Title list

A-side

B-side

Republication

On March 25, 1997 Columbia released the album on CD with the following bonus tracks:

Record label Genre Country-Rock Singing Bass guitar John York (musician) Untitled (The Byrds album) December 15 Traditional music Woody Guthrie Jackson Browne Mr. Tambourine Man (Album) Fifth Dimension (album) Younger Than Yesterday The Notorious Byrd Brothers Byrdmaniax Farther Along (The Byrds album) Byrds (Album)
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