Name: Untitled [Remaster]
Brand: Legacy
SKU: 305705
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Untitled [Remaster]

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Album: Untitled [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lover of the Bayou
2)	Positively 4th Street
3)	Nashville West
4)	So You Want to Be a Rock 'N Roll Star
5)	Mr. Tambourine Man
6)	Mr. Spaceman
7)	Eight Miles High
8)	Chestnut Mare
9)	Truck Stop Girl
10)	All the Things
11)	Yesterday's Train
12)	Hungry Planet
13)	Just a Season
14)	Take a Whiff on Me
15)	You All Look Alike
16)	Well Come Back Home
1)	All the Things - (alternate take)
2)	Yesterday's Train - (alternate take)
3)	Lover of the Bayou - (alternate take)
4)	Kathleen's Song - (alternate take)
5)	White's Lightning Pt. 2
6)	Willin'
7)	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
8)	Old Blue
9)	It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
10)	Ballad of Easy Rider
11)	My Back Pages
12)	Take a Whiff on Me
13)	Jesus Is Just Alright
14)	Wheels on Fire

Album: Untitled [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lover of the Bayou
2)	Positively 4th Street
3)	Nashville West
4)	So You Want to Be a Rock 'N Roll Star
5)	Mr. Tambourine Man
6)	Mr. Spaceman
7)	Eight Miles High
8)	Chestnut Mare
9)	Truck Stop Girl
10)	All the Things
11)	Yesterday's Train
12)	Hungry Planet
13)	Just a Season
14)	Take a Whiff on Me
15)	You All Look Alike
16)	Well Come Back Home
1)	All the Things - (alternate take)
2)	Yesterday's Train - (alternate take)
3)	Lover of the Bayou - (alternate take)
4)	Kathleen's Song - (alternate take)
5)	White's Lightning Pt. 2
6)	Willin'
7)	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
8)	Old Blue
9)	It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
10)	Ballad of Easy Rider
11)	My Back Pages
12)	Take a Whiff on Me
13)	Jesus Is Just Alright
14)	Wheels on Fire

Performer Notes

The Byrds: Clarence White (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Gene Parsons, Skip Battin (vocals); Roger McGuinn (guitar); Gram Parsons (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Byron Berline (violin); Terry Melcher (piano).
Includes liner notes by Roger McGuinn, Jim Bickhart, Derek Taylor.
The Byrds: Clarence White (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Gene Parsons, Skip Battin (vocals); Gram Parsons (background vocals); Roger McGuinn.
Additional personnel: Byron Berline (violin); Terry Melcher (piano).
Liner Note Authors: Derek Taylor; Jim Bickhart; David Fricke; Johnny Rogan.
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. ~ Bruce Eder

Professional Reviews

Q (3/00, p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...has the lovely 'Chestnut Mare' and cannot be entirely discounted..."

Mojo (Publisher) (2/00, p.102) - "...the band sound thoroughly reinvigorated. The live material...is stunning....the studio half is equally impressive....essential."