Speaking of Crosby, some of the other songs are actually Crosby solo performances too. The song is written by Byrd member David Crosby, so clearly he had songwriting skills years before it has generally been realized.Īlso, the first song here is actually still unreleased, and is a Crosby solo performance dating back to 1962 or even 1961! His vocals sound great even back then. Yet this version is basically exactly the same, minus the instrumentation to flesh it out. That song wouldn't be released by the Byrds until the 1967 "Younger than Yesterday" album. Tambourine Man."īut what really fascinates me is that the song "Everybody's Been Burned" is also included here.
Tambourine Man" album - "Here Without You," "I Knew I'd Want You," "You Won't Have to Cry," and "Mr. There are a few songs that would appear on the 1965 "Mr. With this album, I'm not worrying if I repeat some songs from the other 1964 album, or from later Byrds albums, because the fact that they're acoustic versions makes them sufficiently different and interesting. As you can tell from the album title, this is the acoustic album. I decided to split them into two, with the full-band versions on one album and the acoustic versions on the other. The Byrds recorded a lot of songs in 1964, before they hit it big, and before they even were calling themselves "the Byrds." These recordings have been packaged in many ways, usually with "Preflyte" in the title.