
Eight Miles High
TIMELESS FLYTE-A TRIBUTE TO THE BYRDS! The largest tribute EVER to the Byrds, this is Volume 3- "Eight Miles High" in a four volume series featuring great artists of today's Rock, Jangle Pop, Country and Alternative contemporary scene interpreting great Byrds classic songs. John Einarson, author of "Mr. Tambourine Man-The Life And Times Of Gene Clark, writes: Imagine a world with no Byrds. What if the Byrds had never existed? How would the course of popular music have unfolded had Kansas country boy Gene Clark, fleeing the narrow confines of the New Christy Minstrels’ homogenized folk-pop in early 1964, not chanced upon another ex-folk acolyte, Chicago-born Jim (Roger) McGuinn formerly with the Limeliters and Bobby Darin, at the Troubadour? And if yet another folk music refugee, LA brat David Crosby, had not chipped in a harmony part to their Peter & Gordon-style duo? Or die hard bluegrass aficionado Chris Hillman had remained with The Hillmen, content to peel off rapid fire mandolin solos; or if Michael