The Pralines - Song of the Day Cafe

for sale at CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/pralines

The Pralines are Pamela Richardson's band. Pam is a big Gene Clark Fan, and a member of the Yahoo! Gene Clark mailing list.

From Pam:

"It eventually will be available via Amazon and some other sources (or you can contact me directly). It's 12 songs by yours truly, including a bonus track recorded in Austin with the Shakin' Apostles and produced by that fabulous Texas Music Hall of Fame inductee hisself (and Austin Gene Tribute Show coordinator) Mr. Freddie Steady Krc! We all had a great time working on this, and I was very lucky to have contributions from such wonderful, talented artists."

BYRDS related band  have released their first CD called ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MAD. 

It is filled with Byrds-sounding songs. Actually, it sounds more "Byrds" than any solo album recorded by ex-Byrds 

members (except maybe for Roger McGuinn's Back From Rio).

 BYRDSFLYGHT STRONGLY RECOMMENDS THIS ALBUM 

It contains an excellent version of an hitherto unreleased Roger McGuinn / Camilla McGuinn song called THE TEARS

(which Roger performed live in the mid-80s). 

Roger helped the band with suggestions for the recording, and Camilla wrote part of the booklet liner notes.

You can order it from this page: http://www.starbyrd.net

Charlie Taylor's CD ONCE UPON A TIME (released in 2002) is strongly recommended by Byrds Flyght.

Charlie Taylor was a friend of ex-Byrds drummer Kevin Kelley. This CD is dedicated to Kevin Kelley (and others).

Playing with Charlie Taylor on this album is a cast of stars and excellent musicians: Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, Mike Leech, Mike Durham, Carson Whitsett, Ian Wallace, Rick Vito (ex-member of Roger McGuinn's Thunderbyrd), Jimmy Griffin, Scotty Moore, Barry Tashian (co-founder of the original Flying Burrito Brothers pre-Gram Parsons), Daniel Tashian, Terry Townson, Dennis Taylor, Ross Sermons, Geoff Gilette...and more

You can order Charlie Taylor's CD from his website at http://www.charlietaylormusic.com

Mike Headrick's CD STEELS ON WHEELS (released in april 2004) features instrumental versions of songs 

by Chris Hillman & Gram Parsons.

You can purchase Mike Headrick's CD from his web site: http://countrydiscovery.com/store.php

Bruce Kula's CD ARS GRATIA WHATEVER (released in 2003) features Roger McGuinn playing and singing on one track.

You can get Bruce Kula's CD from CD BABY at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/brucekula

TRAIN by STEVE HILL

Long time Chris Hillman writing partner Steve Hill has a new CD out called TRAIN. 

You can order the CD directly from Steve by sending him an e-mail at shill@frazmtn.com

Steve and Chris co-wrote tens of songs for the Desert Rose Band.

Here's a review of this CD by Alan Rockman. It is actually a message sent to Steve Hill by Alan (reprinted with permission).

California country band DAVE GLEASON'S WASTED DAYS recorded a unreleased/unheard

GRAM PARSONS song on their self titled debut cd on Well Worn records in 2002. 

The song was pulled from a bootleg cassette, and is called "FUNKY STRING QUARTET". 

Details at http://www.dave-gleason.com

(read ROGER McGUINN's comments hereunder)

THAT WAS NOW AND THIS IS THEN by STARRY EYED AND LAUGHING

This band (lead by Tony Poole) released two albums in the mi-seventies (Starry Eyed And Laughing and Thought Talk), as well as several singles. They took their name from the lyrics of Bob Dylan's CHIMES OF FREEDOM. This double CD (released on the AURORA label) compiles both LPs and the singles. The band was heavily Byrds-influenced (Jingle-Jangle Sound, Rickenbacker 12 string guitar, Harmony vocals). They were not a Byrds cover band, but wrote their own songs, except for a stunning version of Chimes Of Freedom done the Byrds way (included on this double CD). The CDs come with a very informative 20 pages-thick booklet, with liner notes, lyrics, biography, family tree, pictures and press clippings. 

Tony Poole also has another excellent CD out called FALLEN with his current band THE FALCONS. It has the same Byrds-sounding style with harmony vocals and Rickenbacker 12 string licks (some straight from the FIFTH DIMENSION era)

Here's what Roger McGuinn wrote to Tony Poole about the Falcons album:

(quoted with permission)

"I've listened to "Fallen." The cover looks like a scene from "Chestnut Mare." You're right, it's mostly country. "It's Gonna Rain Soon" is exceptionally good. Great production, amazing compression and technique on the Rickenbacker, good vocals. Makes me want to record something like this myself!

All the best,

Roger"

You can order both these CDs by sending an e-mail to Tony Poole at aurora_music@hotmail.com. 

Just say Raoul form Byrds Flyght sent you.

Gene Clark's "Feeling Higher" is covered by OSEEO on their newly released CD "Perilous Rescue" 

Singer-songwriter PAMELA RICHARDSON (a member of the Gene Clark List at Yahoo! Groups) has a CD out 

that is strongly recommended by Byrds Flyght. It is called SPAGHETTI MIDWESTERN.  

Pam now has her own webpages up at www.pamelarichardson.com

You can ask for details or purchase the CD by writing to Pam at profhound@earthlink.net

Pam's next CD will be released soon and will include her version of Gene Clark's ONE IN A HUNDRED, 

as well as her own tribute song to Gene Clark called TIPTON'S VEIN OF SILVER.

If you like The Byrds sound (and we know you do if you are visiting this page !), you'll probably

like MARKUS HOLLER's latest CD and the vinyl LP he made with his band SILENT BLUE.

Both albums came out on Markus's own SUGARBUSH label.

You can see details of both albums and order the items by going to Markus's web pages at

http://www.sugarbush.u-net.com

DIFFERENT FACES new CD now available

The Different Faces  new CD has been released

 It contains 12 new songs including a cover version of Chris Hillman's "Have you seen her Face".

Songs list :

Orders: info@different-faces.com

People living in the USA (or on the American continent) who don't like to order from Europe, can order the CD directly from an address in the USA (see the DIFFERENT FACES website for details)

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