Please do check it out at:Īmongst the many, many gems you will find several tracks you would also associate with Bob Dylan including “This Old Man”, “Barbara Allen”, “Pay Me My Money Down”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “Silver Dagger”, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”, “Delia’s Gone”, “House Of The Rising Sun”, “Lily Of The West”, “Dink’s Song” and “Golden Vanity”.įrom time to time he will also release a specially curated CD of some of the tracks from the Folk Den including “CCD”, “22 Timeless Tracks” and “The Folk Den Project” 4 disc set. It really is an outstanding piece of work. He usually writes a little bit about each track such as the origins of the track and how he learned it.

You can spend hours there just browsing through his back catalogue. Each track is McGuinn’s own version of an old folk, bluegrass or other old-timey song. Every month or so he uploads a new song, so far there are a couple of hundred tracks and you can listen to or download each one for free(!!). Since around mid-96, Roger McGuinn has run a website called the “Folk Den”.

McGuinn and Hillman duetted on a fine version of “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”. In 1989 Roger McGuinn teamed up again with Chris Hillman and the Nitty Gritty Road Band for their “Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Volume II” album. Again, this was the first time this track appeared on record. This time the Dylan track was “Golden Loom”. “Cardiff Rose” contained the first released version of the amazing “Up To Me”. Levy would go on to co-write “Desire” with Dylan. Much of the album was co-written with Jacques Levy, and it was McGuinn who introduced Dylan to Levy in the mid-70s. “Cardiff Rose” was recorded hot on the heels of McGuinn’s participation in Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Here we have “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” from “Roger McGuinn & Band” On the third album “Roger McGuinn & Band”, McGuinn started a run of three albums in a row which contained a Dylan composition. Oh, I know what you mean and it sounds good to me Laying with my lady and strummin' on my toy and tend to the choreĪnd leave all my troubles behind a locked door

Straight away on first album “Roger McGuinn”, track one is “I’m So Restless”, which not only has a verse about Bob but he also shows up on harmonica! I decided this time to focus purely on the three ex-Byrd’s solo endeavours and ignore, for the time being their excellent work in the Byrds as a group (I might get around to them in a future article).įirst up in this article, let’s look at Roger McGuinn’s dalliances with Dylan. I have also got to see, another ex-Byrd, David Crosby on many occasions…but he will be covered in a future article in this series, with his band mates in Crosby, Stills and Nash. I’ve been lucky enough in my life to see both Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman live in concert, although unfortunately Gene Clark died before I was of regular concert going age, he died in 1991 and I was only 14.

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