The Byrds News

Prior to the Academy of Country Music Awards show in 2007, Hootie and the Blowfish front man Darius Rucker shared a little secret about himself.

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH The aging '60s icons have recently found their waning stars on the ascendant again, thanks in part to getting name-checked by trendy multi-part harmony bands like Fleet Foxes.

The brazen hedonism of Bangkok agrees with Jerry Hopkins. The co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive , the best-selling portrait of iconic Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Hopkins has been described as "the dean of pop biographers." He laughingly refers to himself as a free-spirited "bottom feeder" with good timing.

Few artists in popular music achieve the status and longevity - to say nothing of the grace and understated presence - of Emmylou Harris.

Although they only attained the huge success of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys for a short time in the mid-'60s, time has judged the Byrds to be nearly as influential as those groups in the long run.

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So it goes with Toronto's Jerry Leger , who raided his dad's LPs, growing up while listening to vintage rock and roll and country, as well as albums by Bob Dylan, the Band and the Byrds, and you can hear it all leaking out of the grooves on his latest release with his band the Situation, Some Folks Know.

They hadn't played together since the Jimmy Carter administration, but you wouldn't have known it judging by their first performance in more than 35 years.

Crosby Stills And Nash perform on stage, New York, July 22, 1977. L-R Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash.

Brian Wilson's collaborator on Smile doesn't make solo albums often, and his latest is an eccentric treat with typically complex and clever wordplay If Van Dyke Parks had done nothing else with his musical skills, he would still be assured a place in pop lore for his role as lyricist on Smile, the great lost Beach Boys album which, thanks to Brian ... (more)

Justin Timberlake has revealed the release date for the sequel to his current comeback album, The 20/20 Experience .

When the three surviving members of The Monkees play Warner Theatre in their summer tour, it will be a latest homecoming for Peter Tork.

Until the first CSN album came out in 1969, it was unheard of for three prominent members of uber successful bands to join forces as equal partners.

The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Iggy Pop, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, and more are all vamping it for the newest soundtrack to HBO horror-drama True Blood .

Three indelible images remain from last weekend's Stagecoach country music festival.

Though Jacques Levy ultimately ended up writing six songs with Bob Dylan, the songwriter and director said their initial meeting was marked by no small amount of trepidation.

Although they only attained the huge success of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys for a short time in the mid-'60s, time has judged the Byrds to be nearly as influential as those groups in the long run.

Stagecoach country music festival acts Roger McGuinn and Old Crow Medicine Show performed two different sets but each resulted in the same great musical result.

He told the story of buying his first 12-string guitar and how he had to learn a Leadbelly song because Leadbelly inspired Pete Seeger, who inspired so many others.

The Stagecoach country music festival starts today with superstars Toby Keith, Hank Williams Jr., and Trace Adkins as headliners as well as actor Jeff Bridges & the Abiders.