Roger McGuinn Discusses Anniversary Tour

Roger McGuinn says that he suggested a partial reunion of The Byrds as a way to help distract his friend and bandmate Chris Hillman from some recent personal issues.More »

By on August 5, 2018

Roger McGuinn says that he suggested a partial reunion of The Byrds as a way to help distract his friend and bandmate Chris Hillman from some recent personal issues. “It was a few months ago,” McGuinn told Rolling Stone. “We were travelling in Argentina, sitting in the airport and I said, ‘Let’s do something about this Sweetheart anniversary. We wanted Chris to have something fun to do because he had a tough year. Tom [Petty] died and then his house got burned up in a fire.” He added that Hillman “was all for it” and “jumped at it,” before adding Marty Stuart and his band the Fabulous Superlatives. McGuinn called it a “perfect fit,” because Stuart has a guitar owned by late Byrds member Clarence White. “When it’s played on the Sweetheart songs, it just makes a lot of sense,” he noted. “The first half is the songs we did in the Byrds that led up to recording in Nashville like “Satisfied Mind,” “A Girl With No Name,” “Time Between” and “Mr. Spaceman,” McGuinn added. “This is just to show that we were dabbling in this stuff before Gram [Parsons] came around. Then we talk about Gram and what an influence he was. The second half is all the songs from Sweetheart plus other stuff that Marty Stuart does. Then we’re gonna end with a tribute to Tom Petty.” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «