Byrds Rare 1st Press Sth African LP Sweetheart of the rodeo VG+ ’68 CBS ASF1309 Rare 1st Press South African LP released in 1968 on CBS Records. Cat: ASF1309.
The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was not the first important country-rock album (Gram Parsons managed that feat with the International Submarine Band's debut Safe at Home), and the Byrds were hardly strangers to country music, dipping their toes in the twangy stuff as early as their second album. But no major band had gone so deep into the sound and feeling of classic country (without parody or condescension) as the Byrds did on Sweetheart; at a time when most rock fans viewed country as a musical "L'il Abner" routine, the Byrds dared to declare that C&W could be hip, cool, and heartfelt. Though Gram Parsons had joined the band as a pianist and lead guitarist, his deep love of C&W soon took hold, and Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman followed his lead; significantly, the only two original songs on the album were both written by Parsons (the achingly beautiful "Hickory Wind" and "One Hundred Years from Now"), while on the rest of the set classic tunes by Merle Haggard, the Louvin Brothers, and Woody Guthrie were sandwiched between a pair of twanged-up Bob Dylan compositions.


Tracks : You ain’t going nowhere/ I am a pilgrim/ The Christian life/ You don’t miss your water/ You’re still on my mind/ Pretty boy Floyd/ Hickory wind/ One hundred years from now/ Blue Canadian rockies/ Life in prison/ Nothing was delivered.   There are some light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks and a few very lights cratches that cause some light crackles in parts and is in VG+ condition. Gloss cover with back flaps has very light ring wear, a few light marks, a small sticker on back top left and some tiny surface tears around edges and is in Excellent condition.

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