The Byrds - untitled (2LP, vinyle translucide bleu)
Roger McGuinn – guitar, Moog synthesizer, vocals
Clarence White – guitar, mandolin, vocals
Skip Battin – electric bass, vocals
Gene Parsons – drums, guitar, harmonica, vocals
Gram Parsons – backing vocal on "All the Things"
Terry Melcher – piano on "All the Things" and "Truck Stop Girl"
Byron Berline – fiddle on "You All Look Alike"
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar on "Yesterday's Train"
2 LPs, Gatefold jacket
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Translucent Blue
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio & Live
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded live on February 28, 1970, Colden Center Auditorium, Queens College, New York City and March 1, 1970, Felt Forum, New York City, NY
Recorded in studio May 26 – June 11, 1970, Columbia Studios, Hollywood
Engineered & mixed by Chris Hinshaw
Produced by Jim Dickson, Terry Melcher
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1970
Reissued in 2016
Tracks:
Side A :
- Lover Of the Bayou
- Positively 4th Street
- Nashville West
- So You Want To Be A Rock 'n Roll Star
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Mr. Spaceman
Side B :
- Eight Miles High
Side C :
- Chestnut Mare
- Truck Stop Girl
- All the Things
- Yesterday's Train
- Hungry Planet
Side D :
- Just A Season
- Take A Whiff On Me
- You All Look Alike
- Well Come Back Home
Reviews :
"Among the later Byrds albums, Untitled was always the one to own, even if you weren't a huge fan. Issued back in 1970 as a two-priced-as-one LP, Untitled was one of the few modest commercial successes for the latter-day group. "Eight Miles High" is the high point, a 15-minute jam that showcases this band's prowess. The studio sides aren't to be overlooked, however -- the group by this time was modifying its established sound into more of a '70s mode, and the influence of new members Gene Parsons and Skip Battin was showing up, pushing aside the familiar timbre of Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker in favor of a leaner country-rock orientation. On some of this material (especially the Parsons-Battin "Yesterday's Train" and Battin's "Well Come Back Home"), they sound more like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The only song on the album to get heard by people other than serious Byrds fanatics was McGuinn's "Chestnut Mare," but "Truck Stop Girl," "All the Things," the group's version of Leadbelly's "Take a Whiff on Me," and, especially, "Just a Season" (maybe the prettiest song McGuinn has ever written) also hold up very well. Other numbers, like the environmental ode "Hungry Planet," are more of an acquired taste." AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 3,91 / 5