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Sweetheart of the Rodeo

album by the Byrds

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…created country rock’s pivotal album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968), the country-purist goals of which seemed somewhat avant-garde in a rock world that had come to disdain all things conceivably old-fashioned. To hear the Byrds perform the Louvin Brothers’ country standard “The Christian Life” was to enter a distanced, hyperaestheticized…
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In the Byrds
…informed the country sound of Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a record so controversial it alienated the Byrds’ pop audience at the same time it outraged the Nashville music establishment (although the group did perform on the Grand Ole Opry radio program in 1968).
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