Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music, but was reluctant to use his own recording of " It's Alright, Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding )", so a version performed by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn was used, instead.

Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “ Ballad of Easy Rider ” and told the filmmakers, “ Give this to McGuinn, he ’ ll know what to do with it .” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

After graduation, McGuinn performed solo at various coffeehouses on the folk music circuit where he was hired as a sideman by folk music groups in the same vein as the Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and Judy Collins.

Along with Little Feat and Roger McGuinn, Gallagher performed the first Rockpalast live concert at the Grugahalle, Essen, Germany in 1977.

The song was also performed by a reformed line-up of The Byrds featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman in January 1989.

At the 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert to Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992, Dylan performed " My Back Pages " with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Roger McGuinn.

The song was also performed live by a reformed line-up of The Byrds featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman in January 1989.

Jim McGuinn and Chris Hillman wrote the title song, " Don't Make Waves ," performed by The Byrds over the opening credits.

The box set also includes six songs performed by a reunited line-up of The Byrds, featuring original members Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman.

In June 1993, the Folksmen appeared at the Troubadors of Folk festival at UCLA in Los Angeles, where they performed on the same bill as Paul Stookey, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Roger McGuinn and others.

The song was also performed live by a reformed line-up of The Byrds featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman in January 1989.

The C. F. Martin guitar company has even released a special edition called the HD7 Roger McGuinn Signature Edition, that claims to capture McGuinn's " jingle-jangle " tone which he created with 12 string guitars, while maintaining the ease of playing a 6-string guitar.

In 1968, McGuinn helped create the groundbreaking Byrds album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, to which many attribute the rise in popularity of country rock.

On July 11, 2000, McGuinn testified before in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on downloading music from the Internet that artists do not always receive the royalties that ( non-Internet based ) record companies state in contracts, and that to date, The Byrds had not received any royalties for their greatest successes, " Mr. Tambourine Man " and " Turn, Turn, Turn " – they only received advances, which were split five ways and were just " a few thousand dollars " per band member.

Not all of the songs were strictly new, a few having been written during the 15 Big Ones period, but more specifically " Good Time ", which hailed from the 1970 Sunflower era, and " Ding Dang ", which was co-written with The Byrds ' former leader Roger McGuinn and recorded in late 1973.

Christopher " Chris " Hillman ( born December 4, 1944 in Los Angeles, California ) was one of the original members of The Byrds, which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby and Michael Clarke.

Hillman kept a low profile on the band's first two albums, on which McGuinn and Clark shared lead vocals with Crosby adding high harmony.

After an early 1977 British tour reunited him with Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark, the trio stayed together for two McGuinn-Clark-Hillman albums ( on which Hillman continued his songwriting collaboration with Knobler ) and one under the McGuinn-Hillman name, with a hit single in 1979's " Don't You Write Her Off ".

The Briarwood Singers " Bubbled Under " the Billboard singles chart in December of 1963 with a recording of the traditional folk song He Was a Friend of Mine, which was later recorded ( with new lyrics written specially by Jim McGuinn ) in 1965 by the popular American band, The Byrds, on their second album, Turn!

Calcutta !, after which, Levy approached Roger McGuinn of The Byrds to collaborate on a project inspired by Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt.

According to McGuinn in the liner notes to the 1997 reissue of Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Dylan singled him out in these lyrics for bungling Dylan's original Basement Tapes lyrics on the Byrds version of the song in which McGuinn sings " Pack up your money / Pick up your tent " instead of " Pick up your money / Pack up your tent " as Dylan had.

Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde is unique within the band's discography for being the only album on which McGuinn sings the lead vocal on every track.

The October recording sessions also saw the band attempting the traditional song " Old Blue ", which McGuinn had originally learned from watching Bob Gibson and Bob Camp at Chicago's Gate of Horn club back in April 1961.

Ultimately, the five songs recorded by The Byrds throughout 1972 would all be re-recorded for McGuinn's debut solo album, Roger McGuinn, with the exception of " Born to Rock and Roll ", which was re-recorded for The Byrds ' 1973 reunion album, Byrds.

Of these unreleased tracks, the versions of " The Christian Life ", " You Don't Miss Your Water ", and " One Hundred Years from Now " featured their original Parsons ' lead vocals, which had been removed and replaced by McGuinn and Hillman prior to the release of the album.

It also included The Byrds ' cover of " Paths of Victory ", which had been recorded in 1990 by a reunited line-up of the band featuring original members Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman.

McGuinn also appears on the 1994 Arthur Alexander tribute album Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander, performing a cover version of " Anna ( Go to Him )".

McGuinn also appears with Bruce Springsteen on the live download " Magic Tour Highlights ( Live )" singing " Turn!

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

Although the most common seven-string has a low B string, Roger McGuinn ( of The Byrds and Rickenbacker ) uses an octave G string paired with the regular G string as on a 12-string guitar, allowing him to incorporate chiming 12-string elements in standard six-string playing.

Consequently, when The Byrds ' Columbia recording contract was renewed on February 29, 1968, it was only original members Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman who signed it.

" However, these comments overlook the fact that Parsons, like Kelley, was considered a bona fide member of the band during 1968 and as such, was given equal billing alongside McGuinn, Hillman, and Kelley on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album and in contemporary press coverage of the band.

As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.

Allegedly, the characters of Wyatt and Billy were respectively based on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds.

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

James Roger McGuinn ( born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942 ) known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

McGuinn, Clark and Hillman's second release was to have been a full group effort entitled " City ", but a combination of Clark's unreliability and his dissatisfaction with their musical direction ( mostly regarding Ron and Howard Albert's production ) resulted in the billing change on their next LP " City " to " Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, featuring Gene Clark ".

Roger McGuinn has used the Internet to continue the folk music tradition since November 1995 by recording a different folk song each month on his Folk Den site.

While using the name Roger professionally from that time on, McGuinn only officially changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger.

Among the artists who are featured on the album are John Prine, Ron Sexsmith, Alison Krauss, Yo Yo Ma, Roger McGuinn, Mavis Staples, and Suzy Bogguss.

* Peace on You by Roger McGuinn