![]() ![]() Unlike his contemporaries in the 60s, who transformed rock ‘n’ roll into a singer-songwriter’s genre, McGuinn was a modest tunesmith and pedestrian lyricist, and scored his biggest triumphs with radical interpretations of other people’s songs. But he’s always been something of an oddball by now he’s inspired literally thousands of imitators, and he still sounds like no one else. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & RecreationĪ local boy who made good, Roger McGuinn has long been acknowledged as a pivotal figure in rock: as the brilliant (and by most accounts autocratic) leader of the Byrds, he married traditional American music to 12-string electric guitar, creating a sound that would influence everyone from Bob Dylan and the Beatles to Tom Petty and R.E.M.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.and Canada, and it became a perennial standard in rock as well as folk. It was a smash hit, topping the charts in the U.S. The Byrds recorded their version of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (now completely dropping its original title) in early September and released it as a single on October 1st. McGuinn obliged, but by that point in his career his instincts were more rock than folk, and the resulting hybrid arrangement immediately struck the band as a potential hit. and U.K.Īs the band was touring that summer, McGuinn’s future wife Dolores asked Jim to play Seeger’s song (which by that point was a folk standard) on the tour bus. Tambourine Man” released in April 1965 that went to #1 in both the U.S. Their first and biggest came right out of the gate: a cover of Bob Dylan’s “ Mr. The Byrds scored their two biggest hits during their first year together. The trio added Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman to their line-up later in the year, and by Thanksgiving, they’d renamed themselves The Byrds. In the interview below, Seeger tells Alec Wilkinson how he approached writing the song.Ī year later, McGuinn teamed up with fellow folk musicians Gene Clark and David Crosby and formed a group called The Jet Set. ![]() ![]() Who wouldn’t find solace in the notion that life brings its share of joy and grief in turns? Especially when you’re in a valley, it’s nice to know another peak awaits you somewhere out there.īut in the late 1950s, Seeger sensed that a war-weary America needed a bit more reassurance, and he added six important words of his own: I swear it’s not too late. The original text was already innately comforting. Pete Seeger took those Bible verses, re-arranged them a bit, set them to music, wrote a half-dozen new words (plus a repeated seventh), and created a timeless international classic. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Ī time to be born, and a time to die a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted Ī time to kill, and a time to heal a time to break down, and a time to build up Ī time to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn, and a time to dance Ī time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together Ī time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing Ī time to gain that which is to get, and a time to lose a time to keep, and a time to cast away Ī time to rend, and a time to sew a time to keep silence, and a time to speak Ī time of love, and a time of hate a time of war, and a time of peace. ![]()
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