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Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman – City (1980) (24/44 Vinyl Rip)

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Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman – City (1980) (24/44 Vinyl Rip)

Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman – City (1980)
XLD Flac 24Bit/44.1kHz = 427 MB | Mp3 VBR0 = 83 MB | Scans 400 dpi jpg | RAR
Vinyl LP | Electrola 1C 064-86075 | Folk Rock | USA

Review by Bruce Eder on Allmusic:
The second McGuinn, Clark & Hillman album turned into a McGuinn-Hillman album "featuring Gene Clark" when the latter dropped out of the tour ahead of it and then only contributed to two songs on this record, one of which was ironically called "Won't Let You Down." Apart from Clark's two songs, none of this really sounds much like the Byrds, although the stuff is pleasant late-'70s Byrds-influenced rock, sort of folky at its best moment and driven by McGuinn's mournful lead vocals and the soaring harmonies. "One More Chance" was the most Byrds-like of the non-Gene Clark numbers, and "City" was a good song, but, ironically, the two Gene Clark numbers were the best on the record, as good as anything he ever wrote after leaving the Byrds – and this CD is the only way to get them (they didn't make it onto Edsel's anthology).
Biography by Bruce Eder on Allmusic:
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman (later McGuinn-Hillman) came about in 1977, when three former members of the original Byrds – Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman – decided to try and update their sound in a new context. The impetus for the reunion took shape in stages over the course of that year. McGuinn and Hillman had played together longer than any of the other original members, with six albums (and innumerable concerts) across four years during the 1960s, and as late as 1967 they'd tried without success to reintegrate Gene Clark – the best songwriter among them and a superb singer, but also the first to leave – back into the band. Then, in early 1977, with each fronting his own band, they planned a joint tour of Europe promoting their own respective new releases. The Byrds were still idolized across Europe, even more so than in the United States, and ticket sales were brisk and press coverage …
This event created a rift between the ex-bandmates that was never fully healed, and may well have been responsible for Clark's not having been asked to participate in the "reunion" tracks recorded for the Byrds box set in the early '90s. McGuinn and Hillman soldiered on to finish the tour and do a second album, entitled City. Released in 1980, and created to McGuinn & Hillman "featuring Gene Clark," it had more of a recognizable connection to the Byrds, and was as strong a record as – and some would say even stronger than – its predecessor. But even here, there were some serious weaknesses, as Clark's two songs, one of them ironically called "Don't Let You Down," were the two best tracks on the album. Additionally, although this record did sound a bit more in keeping with the history of the musicians involved, some of the material seemed inappropriate, even silly – "Skate Date" was catchy enough, but hardly worthy of (or appropriate) for two singer/songwriters associated with such songs as "Eight Miles High," "The Girl with No Name," "Have You Seen Her Face," etc. …
Tracks
01. Who Taught The Night 03:03
02. One More Chance 04:05
03. Won't Let You Down 03:53
04. Street Talk 02:44
05. City 04:35
06. Skate Date 03:01
07. Givin' Herself Away 03:48
08. Deeper In 02:41
09. Painted Fire 02:49
10. Let Me Down Easy 03:56
Total time: 34:33

Musicians
Roger McGuinn: guitars, vocals
Chris Hillman: bass, vocals
Gene Clark: vocals (3, 9)
John Sambataro: lead guitar
Chuck Crane: guitar
Skip Edwards: keyboards, steel guitar
Scott Kirkpatrick: drums



These rips are several years old, 24Bit/44.1kHz resolution was my limit in those days.
Record Player: Dual CS series, Ortofon pickup, or Thorens TD 160
Pre-/Amplifier: Kenwood KR 5030 Link
A-D converter: MiniDisc recorder Sony MDS-JB 920, 24 Bit S/PDIF output Link
Mac G4 with Audiowerk 8-channel PCI Audio Card, S/PDIF input
Sound editing: SonicWorx
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