Chapter 12: "Back to country"
The Byrds
Followed Bob Dylan's example and started playing in a more folk rock style
Jackson Browne
singer-songwriter; influenced by bob Dylan, Seeger, and Guthrie
The Byrds albums during this folk rock period consist of......
"Sweetheart of the rodeo" 1968
When did the band release music from big pink
1968
The eagles released______ #1 albums and _______ #1 singles
3 and 5
Troubadour
A club in LA from the 1960's to now; a very important performance and networking venue for county/ folk rock musicians.
What song is called the most requested song in the history of rock music?
Free bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Name members of the eagles
Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meitner, Bernie Leadon
Two members of the Byrds left during this period; who were they and what band did they form?
Gram parsons, and Chris Hillman, they formed the band "flying burrito brothers"
What Linda Ronstadt album in 1975 went on to hit #1 on pop and country charts
Heart like a wheel
What album bob Dylan album was a significant and early example of the country rock phenomenon?
John Weasley Harding 1967
Identify this quote: " we all used to sit in a corner of the troubadour and dream. It was where everyone met, where everyone got to hear everyone else's act. It was where I made all my musical contacts"
Linda Ronstadt
Which artist recruited a new backing band that would eventually go on to form "the eagles" in 1971?
Linda Ronstadt
Allman Brothers Band
Most important southern rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s who reconnected the generative power of the blues to the mainstream of rock music.
What bob Dylan album was recorded in Nashville and featured Johnny Cash
Nashville Skyline
Did the Byrds album "sweetheart of the rodeo" sell well?
No
Eagles
One of the best- selling rock acts of the late 1970's
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Originally called "my backyard"; very impressed with the early performances of the Allman Brothers Band
What two former members of the Buffalo Springfield went on to form Poco
Richie Furay, and Jim Messina
Identify this quote " everybody was getting real loud, psychedelic, flashy and we went the other way"
Robbie Robinson
What Lynyrd Skynyrd song was a response to a Neil young song that was very critical of southerners?
Sweet home Alabama
What band in 1961 backed rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins as well as Bob Dylan
The band, when backing Ronnie they used the name the hawks
What famous song came out of the big pink house?
The weight
On the bands album "the band" what two of their most popular singles came off this album?
Up on cripple creek, the night they drove old Dixie down
What artists are examples of outlaw music
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams jr, and David Allan Coe