Hallock Hill10 November 2008
The Byrds: Hickory Wind
The Byrds, “Hickory Wind,” Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
This is one of Gram Parsons’s classics, penned for The Byrd’s own classic shift into country that Parsons initiated. He knew how to use his voice so well, to show the breaking of his world as he looked back on his childhood. You have to read David N. Meyer’s book on Parsons: Twenty Thousand Roads. I’m over here in London but can’t shake this Cosmic American Music.
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