The band hated these overdubs and the song was not included on the completed album. The first song recorded at the sessions in March was the Bob Dylan song 'Lay Lady Lay' which was overdubbed with a female chorus by producer Bob Johnston without the band's knowledge and was issued as a single in May. So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / He Was A Friend Of Mine / Chimes Of FreedomĬontinuing the routine of touring and recording they were back in the studios in March 1969 starting work on the next album, ' The Ballad Of Easy Rider'. The Christian Life / Time Between / King Apathy III / Bad Night At The Whiskey / This Wheel's On Fire / Sing Me Back Home Tambourine Man - Eight Miles High / Close Up The Honky Tonks / Buckaroo Nashville West / You're Still On My Mind / Pretty Boy Floyd / Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man THE BYRDS: Live At The Fillmore - February 1969 (Columbia/Legacy 65910) The Byrds were now an excellent touring unit and their shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on February 7 & 8th 1969 were recorded but remained in Columbia's vaults until 2000 when an album from the shows was released as the final part of the Legacy CD reissue project. This single was also released on the Sierra Records sampler ' Silver Meteor'. 'I'm on my way home again / Cuckoo bird'. The Everly Brothers released a single on 'Warner Brothers' (WB 7290) 1969 which was produced by Lenny Waronker and has Clarence White and Gene Parsons playing all instruments. Blues - Baby What You Want Me To DoĪ list of Byrds shows 1968 can be found on Raoul's great Byrds Flyght web-page. Stanley's Song / Lay Lady Lay / This Wheel's On Fire / Medley - My Back Pages - B.J. Blues - Baby What You Want Me To Doīonus tracks on CD re-release (Columbia/Legacy 486753 2) Side B: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man / King Apathy III / Candy / Bad Night At The Whiskey Side A: This Wheel's On Fire / Old Blue / Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me / Child Of The Universe / Nashville West With Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Gene Parsons & John York. The album was released on February 3, 1969. This is the first album Clarence played the ' Parsons-White String Bender'! Visit Clarence White's gear list! Gene Parsons recorded that song 1967 together with Gib Guilbeau as ' Cajun Gib & Gene' for Gary Paxton's 'Bakersfield International' label. Clarence and Gene also included the Gib Guilbeau song 'Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me'. Vocally this album was all McGuinn although Clarence and Gene did get the chance to record another version of 'Nashville West' from their Bakersfield International days. Hyde',which was completed with further sessions during October and December. In early October the new four man line-up of the Byrds were back in Columbia Studios in Hollywood recording a new album, ' Dr. The Byrds performed 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere' and 'This Wheel's On Fire'. The show was taped on September 28, 1968. One of the first public performances (or THE first!) with this line-up was at 'Hugh Hefner's' Playboy After Dark TV-show.

Firstly Kevin Kelley was fired and replaced on drums by Gene Parsons and by late September Chris Hillman had also left to form the Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons and John York took over on bass. In the space of the next couple of months The Byrds saw various changes. The song 'Louisiana Woman' with Clarence, Gib, Gene and John York was released on CD by 'Big Beat' label on ' Guilbeau & Parsons: Louisiana Rain'.

There were others that I don't recall at the moment.' The song that sticks in my mind was called 'Louisiana Woman'. On the northside of a group of offices called 'Crossroads Of The World' on Sunset Boulevard. John York - still worked as a studio musician - remembers: ' I remember doing some sessions with Clarence White, Gene Parsons and Gib Guilbeau in a studio in Hollywood in late 1968.

In late 1968 Clarence was in a studio in Hollywood. The tour proved to be an artistic and financial disaster and on their return to the US with some shows already booked, Clarence White accepted an invitation from Chris Hillman to join the band full-time as replacement for Gram Parsons. In July 1968 The Byrds played a charity gig at the 'Royal Albert Hall' in London and were due to start a tour of South Africa the next day, however on the morning of departure Gram Parsons told McGuinn he wouldn't tour and immediately left the band. Clarence White biography - Part 4 THE BYRDS

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