Artist: Roger McGuinn
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
Roger McGuinn – Roger McGuinn & Band
Roger McGuinn’s first two post-Byrds solo albums were reissued in early 2004. The third, 1975′s Roger McGuinn & Band, while inherently flawed, is a marked improvement over its predecessor, the unfortunately titled Peace On You. As its title suggests, the album is built around a cohesive band, a transplanted trio that had been working in [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Roger McGuinn – Self-Titled / Peace On You
The Byrds at their artistic peak were a fractious band with an uneasy chemistry, unable to sustain a balance for any significant duration. They were not alone in this. Some of the era’s other important bands had equally volatile combinations of personalities and inclinations, creating pivotal works but unsustainable careers (Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Mcguinn, Clark & Hillman – Self-Titled
After more than a decade apart, these three founding Byrds reconvened at the end of the ’70s. Rather than echoing the classic early Byrds, their collaboration resembled the bands of diminishing potency who had followed in their wake — Poco, Manassas, Firefall. Roger McGuinn’s 12-string jangle is absent, though it really would have been completely [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Roger McGuinn – I Want to Preserve the Songs
There are many facets to Roger McGuinn. Among them, of course, is the durable rock icon whose fanciful songs, plaintive vocals and ringing 12-string Rickenbacker were the abiding glue in the myriad lineups of folk-rock pioneers the Byrds. More pertinent to these times, though, is the traditional folksinger who has bookended those electrified years, and [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Roger McGuinn – Chicago Folk Center (Chicago, IL)
The artistic burden of carrying a mythic, pioneering band’s legacy on one’s shoulders can be overwhelming. Or, as David Crosby once put it, “The Byrds — that’s some heavy shit, man.” At this celebratory show, Chicago native and ex-Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn carried his legacy quite gracefully, performing Byrds classics with pride and panache. His [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Roger McGuinn – Discovery Theatre (Anchorage, AK)
Former Byrds leader Roger McGuinn billed this concert as a “one-man play” based on his 1996 CD Live From Mars, which features a collection of live recordings that chronicle his career up to the dissolution of the Byrds in 1972. McGuinn seldom strayed from the music and banter of the CD, frequently changing guitars and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Roger McGuinn – Live From Mars
Roger McGuinn’s pick prints are all over the tableau of pop music. Those 12-string jangles and cosmic hooks were the stuff that ignited the psychedelic folk-rock era. And from acts as diverse as Tom Petty to R.E.M., he also informed much of the rock and pop that followed. But McGuinn isn’t content to be some [...]
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