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Roger McGuinn will always be known first and foremost as the founder of perhaps the greatest American folk-rock band, the Byrds. The ringing of his 12-string electric guitar on classics like "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" and the ethereal beauty of self-penned ballads like "Chestnut Mare" are unforgettable. Considered by many to be the American equivalent of the Beatles, the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. While McGuinn played a central role in the birth and development of the band, his musical explorations started before the famous group debuted and continued long after its demise.

James Joseph McGuinn III grew up in a comfortable Chicago neighborhood in the 1940s and 1950s. His parents, James and Dorothy McGuinn, became minor celebrities when they published the humorous bestseller Parents Can’t Win in 1948. Young Jim McGuinn came of age during the heady days of the folk revival, and Chicago, like New York, had a lively local scene. At coffeehouses and at Albert Grossman’s Gate of Horn one could see folk performers like Bob Gibson and Hamilton Camp. McGuinn attended the Old Town School of Folk Music from 1957 to 1960 and became proficient on the banjo and guitar. A few weeks after he graduated from high school, he received an offer to go on the road with the popular folk group the Limeliters. His parents made no objections. "[W]hen I decided to become a professional musician at age 17," McGuinn recalled to Dan Epstein of the Backstage Pass website, "they said, ‘Go for it, kid!’ They were just happy that I knew what I wanted to do in life."

During the early 1960s McGuinn’s musical Odyssey took a number of twists and turns. After playing for a short time with the Limeliters, he moved to Los Angeles and performed as a solo act. After another move, this time to San Francisco, he joined the Chad Mitchell Trio and remained with the group for two years. He was approached by the New Christy Minstrels but opted instead to work for several months with Bobby Darin. McGuinn also played on a number of recording sessions, including one with Judy Collins, accompanying her on a Pete Seeger song called, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" At the end of 1963, he moved back to Los Angeles and continued his solo career.

McGuinn, however, had changed. Like many of his peers in 1963, he began to re-examine his commitment to folk music in the wake of the Beatles’ success. He continued to play acoustic music but adapted a rock beat and began to search for like-minded musicians. He formed a duo with former New Christy Minstrel Gene Clark, and later they added David Crosby. Calling themselves the Jet Set, they quickly supplemented their lineup with drummer Michael Clarke and bassist Chris Hillman. Still, something was missing from the acoustic group. This "missing" element was revealed when McGuinn saw George Harrison playing

an electric, 12-string Rickenbacker in A Hard Day’s Night. The band, briefly calling themselves the Beefeaters, combined their resources and bought a 12-string guitar and a bass, and by Thanksgiving 1964, the electrified group decided to call themselves the Byrds. In January of 1965, McGuinn cut a version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" with studio musicians at Columbia Records. When it became a hit six months later, the Byrds had arrived.

Between 1965 and 1973 McGuinn stood at the helm of the Byrds, forging new sounds and creating a series of groundbreaking albums. First dubbed folk-rock, the band also dabbled in psychedelic rock and pioneered country-rock. McGuinn changed his name from Jim to Roger after a short involvement with the Subud religion. Early albums like Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965 and Turn! Turn! Turn! in 1966 were noted for the close three-part harmony, Bob Dylan songs, and the ringing sound of McGuinn’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The lineup of the band changed constantly. In 1968, with the addition of Gram Parsons, the band recorded Sweetheart of the Rodeo, drawing heavily from country music. The 1970 album Untitled presents both live and studio material, including one of McGuinn’s most beloved songs, "Chestnut Mare." While the Byrds seemed to run out of steam by the time they disbanded in 1973, their influence has continued to be immense. "The Byrds’ innovations have echoed nearly as strongly through subsequent generations," wrote Richie Unterberger in All Music Guide, "in the work of Tom Petty, R.E.M., and innumerable alternative bands of the post-punk era that feature those jangling guitars and dense harmonies."

Complications ensued for McGuinn in 1973. After disbanding the Byrds, he recorded an unsatisfying album with the original members. In the midst of this chaos, in the summer of 1973, he released his self-titled debut. While Roger McGuinn and the 1974 follow-up Peace on You received some good reviews, many critics thought the recordings lacked the vigor of earlier Byrds material. In 1975, after another lackluster album, McGuinn joined the Rolling Thunder Revue, a high-profile rock show put together by Bob Dylan. The touring and camaraderie of the revue energized McGuinn, leading to the recording of Cardiff Rose, an album many saw as his best work since 1970’s Untitled. Despite this success, life as a rock star was taking its toll. In retrospect, he believed that the fog of alcohol and drugs had led to a number of less-than-satisfying albums. He proceeded to clean up his act, get married, and become a Christian.

While McGuinn continued to perform for the next 12 years, he kept a lower profile and did not release another solo album until 1990. He played several live dates and recorded with Gene Clark and Chris Hillman in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While live shows, occasionally including David Crosby, garnered accolades, the critical response to the studio recordings was lackluster. During the remainder of the 1980s McGuinn returned to solo performing while continuing to make intermittent guest appearances. In 1990 Colombia released a boxed set of Byrds albums and in 1991 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The recognition of his former work re-invigorated McGuinn at the beginning of the 1990s. He continued his solo career, began a number of new projects, and seemed comfortable in his role as a rock ‘n’ roll icon. For 1990’s critically acclaimed Back to Rio, he wrote nine new songs and was joined by guests including Tom Petty and Elvis Costello. In 1993 he performed "Mr. Tambourine Man" at Bob Dylan’s thirtieth anniversary celebration and then joined in an all-star finale of "My Back Pages." The 1996 album Live from Mars included new and old songs, accompanied by autobiographical monologues. McGuinn also began storing traditional folksongs on MP3 files in the mid-1990s, making them easily available to Internet users. He extended this project with the release of Treasures from the Folk Den in 2001, recording old songs like "John the Revelator" and "The Virgin Mary" with the help of Joan Baez and Judy Collins. When asked in 1996 by Paul Kitchen in Dig Magazine about his plans for the future, McGuinn said, "Andres Segovia was scheduled to play Carnegie Hall the month he died. He kept doing what he loved until he couldn’t do it any longer. That’s what I plan to do!"

Selected discography
Roger McGuinn, Columbia, 1973.
Cardiff Rose, Columbia, 1976.
Back from Rio, Arista, 1990.
Treasures from the Folk Den, Appleseed, 2001.

Sources
Books
Walters, Neal, and Brian Mansfield, editors, MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press, 1998.
Ward, Ed, Geoffrey Stokes, and Ken Tucker, Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, Rolling Stone Press, 1986.

Periodicals
No Depression, November-December 1999, pp.18-19.

Online
"Byrds," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bn7qvadskv8w8 (September 14, 2001).
"No Exit: Roger McGuinn," Backstage Pass, http://users.aol.com/McGuinn742/BAM.html (August 30, 2001).
"Roger McGuinn," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B3ucyxdgb8ols (August 30, 2001).
"Roger McGuinn," Dig Magazine, http://www.digmagazine.com/inside/music/mcguinn.cfm (August 30, 2001).
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As the frontman of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. in the process. James Joseph McGuinn was born on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, where by his teenage years he was already something of a folk music prodigy. After touring with the Limelighters, in 1960 he signed on as an accompanist with the Chad Mitchell Trio, appearing on the LPs Mighty Day on Campus and At the Bitter End; frustrated with his limited role in the group, he soon joined Bobby Darin's group when the singer moved from pop to folk.

After appearing on sessions for Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, and Tom & Jerry (soon to be known as Simon & Garfunkel), McGuinn began playing solo dates around the Los Angeles area, where he soon formed the Jet Set with area musicians David Crosby and Gene Clark. After a failed single under the name the Beefeaters, the group recruited bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, changed their name to the Byrds, and set about crystallizing McGuinn's vision of merging the poetic folk music of Bob Dylan with the miraculous pop sounds heard via the British Invasion. McGuinn was the only member of the Byrds to play on their landmark debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man," but his jangly guitar work quickly became the very definition of the burgeoning folk-rock form; still, despite the Byrds' immediate success, both commercially and critically, the group was plagued by internal strife, and following the release of their 1968 country-rock breakthrough Sweetheart of the Rodeo, McGuinn was the only founding member still in the band.

Under the direction of McGuinn -- who had changed his first name to Roger after a flirtation with the Subud religion -- the Byrds soldiered on, delving further and further into country and roots music before finally dissolving in February 1973. That same year, McGuinn issued his self-titled solo debut, an ambitious, eclectic affair which explored not only folk and country but surf and even space rock. 1974's Peace on You and 1975's Roger McGuinn & His Band preceded a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, which helped revitalize his standing within the musical community. 1976's Cardiff Rose was regarded as his best solo effort to date, but the next year's Thunderbyrd, which featured a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl," failed to connect with audiences.

In late 1977, McGuinn reunited with Byrds mates Chris Hillman and Gene Clark; the resulting LP, 1979's McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, notched a Top 40 pop hit with the McGuinn-penned "Don't You Write Her Off." Midway through recording the follow-up, 1980's City, Clark departed, and the album was released under the name "Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman Featuring Gene Clark." Following another effort, 1981's McGuinn/Hillman, they went their separate ways. After undergoing another religious conversion, this time becoming a born-again Christian, McGuinn spent the remainder of the 1980s without a recording contract and performing solo dates.

The appearance of a faux Byrds led by Michael Clarke prompted McGuinn to reform the group with Hillman and David Crosby in 1989, resulting in a series of club performances, an appearance at a Roy Orbison tribute, and a handful of new recordings for inclusion on a box set retrospective. In 1991 -- the same year the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- McGuinn issued his first new solo recordings in over a decade, the all-star Back to Rio, which was met with great public and critical acclaim. Live From Mars, a retrospective of songs and stories, appeared in 1996. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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Roger McGuinn

McGuinn performing live at TCAN, Natick, MA - April 8, 2011
Background information
Birth name James Joseph McGuinn III
Born (1942-07-13) July 13, 1942 (age 69)
Chicago, Illinois United States
Genres Rock, folk rock, folk
Occupations Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Vocals, twelve-string guitar, seven-string guitar, guitar, banjo, mandolin, Moog synthesizer
Years active 1960-present
Labels Columbia
Associated acts The Byrds, Chad Mitchell Trio
Website www.rogermcguinn.com
Notable instruments
Rickenbacker 370/12
Martin HD-7
Martin D12-42RM

James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942)[1] is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Byrds.

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Early life

McGuinn was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, James and Dorothy, were involved in journalism and public relations, and during his childhood, they had written a bestseller titled Parents Can't Win. He attended The Latin School of Chicago. He became interested in music after hearing Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel", and asked his parents to buy him a guitar. (During the early 1980s, he paid tribute to the song that encouraged him to play guitar by including "Heartbreak Hotel" in his autobiographical show). Around the same time, he was also influenced by country artists and/or groups such as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, and The Everly Brothers.

In 1957, he enrolled as a student at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music,[2] where he learned the five-string banjo and continued to improve his guitar skills. 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. He also played guitar and sang backup harmonies for Bobby Darin. Soon after, he relocated to the West Coast, eventually Los Angeles, where he eventually met the future members of The Byrds.[2]

In 1962, after he ended his association with the Chad Mitchell Trio, McGuinn was hired by Darin to be a backup guitarist and harmony singer. (At that approximate time, Darin wanted to add some folk roots to his repertoire because it was a burgeoning musical field.) Unfortunately, about a year and a half after McGuinn began to play guitar and sing with Darin, Darin became ill and retired from singing. Subsequently, Darin opened T.M. Music in New York City's Brill Building, hiring McGuinn as a song writer for $35 a week. During 1963, just one year before he co-founded The Byrds, he was a studio musician in New York City, recording with Judy Collins and Simon & Garfunkel. At the same time, he was hearing of The Beatles (whose first American tour would commence in February 1964), and wondering how Beatlemania might affect folk music. By the time Doug Weston gave McGuinn a job in Southern California, at the The Troubadour (Los Angeles), McGuinn had included Beatles' songs in his act. He gave rock style treatments to traditional folk tunes and thereby caught the attention of another folkie Beatle fan, Gene Clark, who joined forces with McGuinn in July 1964. Together they formed the beginning of what was to become The Byrds.[2]

The Byrds

During his time with The Byrds, McGuinn developed two innovative and very influential styles of electric guitar playing. The first was "jingle-jangle" – generating ringing arpeggios based on banjo finger picking styles he learned while at the Old Town School – which was influential in the folk rock genre. The second style was a merging of saxophonist John Coltrane's free-jazz atonalities, which hinted at the droning of the sitar – a style of playing, first heard on The Byrds' 1966 single "Eight Miles High", which was influential in psychedelic rock.

McGuinn with The Byrds at a concert held at Washington University in St. Louis

While "tracking" The Byrds' first single, "Mr. Tambourine Man", at Columbia studios, McGuinn discovered an important component of his style. "The 'Ric' [Rickenbacker guitar] by itself is kind of thuddy," he notes. "It doesn't ring. But if you add a compressor, you get that long sustain. To be honest, I found this by accident. The engineer, Ray Gerhardt, would run compressors on everything to protect his precious equipment from loud rock and roll. He compressed the heck out of my 12-string, and it sounded so great we decided to use two tube compressors [likely Teletronix LA-2As] in series, and then go directly into the board. That's how I got my 'jingle-jangle' tone. It's really squashed down, but it jumps out from the radio. With compression, I found I could hold a note for three or four seconds, and sound more like a wind instrument. Later, this led me to emulate John Coltrane's saxophone on "Eight Miles High". Without compression, I couldn't have sustained the riff's first note."[3]

"I practiced eight hours a day on that 'Ric,'" he continues, "I really worked it. In those days, acoustic 12s had wide necks and thick strings that were spaced pretty far apart, so they were hard to play. But the Rick's slim neck and low action let me explore jazz and blues scales up and down the fretboard, and incorporate more hammer-ons and pull-offs into my solos. I also translated some of my banjo picking techniques to the 12-string. By combining a flat pick with metal finger picks on my middle and ring fingers, I discovered I could instantly switch from fast single-note runs to banjo rolls and get the best of both worlds."[4]

Another sound that McGuinn developed is made by playing a seven string guitar, featuring a doubled G-string (with the second string tuned an octave higher). 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.

The Byrds recorded several albums after Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965. The single, "Turn! Turn! Turn!", written by Pete Seeger with the lyrics drawn from Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, was The Byrds' second Number One success in late 1965. In 1969, McGuinn's solo version of the "Ballad Of Easy Rider" appeared in the film Easy Rider, while a full band version was the title track for the album released later that year. 1970's "Untitled" album featured a 16-minute version of The Byrds' 1966 hit "Eight Miles High", with all four members taking extended solos representative of their "jam-band" style of playing during that period.[5]

After several personnel changes, the group disbanded in 1973, with Chris Hillman playing bass with the band for their final show in February of that year. Notable band members included David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Clarence White, Skip Battin and Gram Parsons, all of whom went on to form successful groups. In 1968, McGuinn helped create the groundbreaking Byrds album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, to which many attribute the rise in popularity of country rock. McGuinn originally conceived the album as a blend of rock, jazz and other styles; but Gram Parson's and Chris Hillman's bluegrass-western-country influences came to the forefront. Other artist's albums, and even Byrd songs by Hillman on previous albums showed a strong country influence, but "Sweetheart" was the first fully fledged country rock album.

Post-Byrds

After the break-up of The Byrds, McGuinn released several solo albums throughout the 1970s. He toured with Bob Dylan in 1975 and 1976 as part of Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue". In late 1975, he played guitar on the track titled "Ride The Water" on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll all-star album.

In 1978, McGuinn joined fellow ex-Byrds Gene Clark and Chris Hillman to form "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman", and the three together recorded an album with Capitol Records in 1979. The media loved the band and they performed on many TV rock shows, including repeated performances on The Midnight Special, where they played both new material and Byrds hits. "Don't You Write Her Off" reached #33 in April 1979. While some believe that the slick production and disco rhythms didn't flatter the group, and the album had mixed critically and commercial response, it sold enough to generate a follow up. 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". By 1981 Clark had left and the group continued briefly as "McGuinn/Hillman".[citation needed]

In 1987 Roger McGuinn was the opening act for Dylan and Tom Petty. In 1991 he released his comeback solo album, Back from Rio to successful acclaim. It included the hit single "King of the Hill," written by and featuring Petty.

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. He also stated that he was receiving 50 percent royalties from MP3.com.[6]

McGuinn currently tours as a solo artist.

Folk Den

Main article: Folk Den

Roger McGuinn has used the World Wide Web to continue the folk music tradition since November 1995 by recording a different folk song each month on his Folk Den site. The songs are made available from his Web site, and a selection (with guest vocalists) was released on CD as Treasures from the Folk Den, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Traditional Folk Album. In November 2005, McGuinn released a four-CD box set containing one hundred of his favorite songs from the Folk Den.[7]

Religious faith and name changes

When he originally started with The Byrds, he used the name Jim, which he thought to be too plain. During 1965 McGuinn briefly explored the Subud spiritual association and began to practice the latihan, an exercise in quieting the mind. McGuinn changed his name in 1967 after Subud's founder Bapak told him it would better "vibrate with the universe." Bapak sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like "Rocket", "Retro", "Ramjet", and "Roger", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation. Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and Bapak chose it. While using the name Roger professionally from that time on, McGuinn only officially changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger. McGuinn left the Subud spiritual association in 1977, the same year that he met his wife Camilla (they married the next year). Both have become committed Christians since that time.[8]

Discography

Albums

  • Roger McGuinn (1973)
  • Peace on You (1974)
  • Roger McGuinn & Band (1975)
  • Cardiff Rose (1976)
  • Thunderbyrd (1977)
  • McGuinn, Clark & Hillman (1979) (with Gene Clark and Chris Hillman)
  • City (1980) (with Chris Hillman, featuring Gene Clark)
  • McGuinn - Hillman (1981) (with Chris Hillman)
  • Back from Rio (1991)
  • Born to Rock and Roll (1991) (compilation album)
  • Live from Mars (1996)
  • McGuinn's Folk Den, Volume 1 (MP3.com download and CD) (1999)
  • McGuinn's Folk Den, Volume 2 (MP3.com download and CD) (1999)
  • McGuinn's Folk Den, Volume 3 (MP3.com download and CD) (1999)
  • McGuinn's Folk Den, Volume 4 (MP3.com download and CD) (2000)
  • Treasures from the Folk Den (2001)
  • In the Spirit of Love (MP3.com download and CD) (2002)
  • The Sea: Songs by Roger McGuinn (MP3.com download and CD) (2003)
  • Limited Edition (2004)
  • Live At The XM Studios 05/27/2004 (download only) (2004)
  • The Folk Den Project (2005)
  • Live from Spain (2007)
  • 22 Timeless Tracks from the Folk Den Project (2008)
  • CCD (2011)

McGuinn also appears on the various artists anthology Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander (1994). McGuinn performs a cover version of "Anna". He contributed two tracks, "Banjo Cantata" and "Ramblin' On", to a compilation of banjo pieces released by Davon as Banjo Greats (Volumes 1 & 2), re-issued on CD by Tradition in 1996 as Banjo Jamboree. He has also performed the songs "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "The Ballad of Easy Rider" which were included on the soundtrack of the film Easy Rider. Another soundtrack that features McGuinn is the 1977 film Ransom. McGuinn performed "Shoot 'Em" which appears on the anthology album Byrd Parts 2, released on Australia's Raven Records label in 2003. McGuinn also appears with Bruce Springsteen on the live download "Magic Tour Highlights (Live)" singing "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Roger McGuinn also did guitar the work in The Beach Boys version of California Dreaming video.

Singles

Year Single Chart positions Album
US MSR US Country CAN Country
1989 "You Ain't Going Nowhere"
(w/ Chris Hillman)		 — 6 11 Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two
(Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)
1991 "King of the Hill" 2 — — Back from Rio
"Someone to Love" 12 — —

Notes

  1. ^ "Roger McGuinn". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354474/Roger-McGuinn. Retrieved 2008-09-21. 
  2. ^ a b c "Roger McGuinn". Ibiblio.org. http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/McGuinn.html. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
  3. ^ Bob Mehr (2009-02-14). "Byrds' Roger McGuinn gets to root of his music passion at folk conference". Space Times News. cripps Interactive Newspapers Group. http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2009/feb/14/mcguinn-at-roots-of-folk/. Retrieved 2011-03-17. 
  4. ^ "Roger McGuinn - Rickenbacker 360/12". Iconic Guitar. http://www.iconicguitar.com/2010/05/roger-mcguinn-rickenbacker-36012.html. Retrieved 2011-03-17. 
  5. ^ "The Byrds Biography". The Inductess: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. 2010. http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-byrds/bio/. Retrieved 2011-03-17. 
  6. ^ "Transcript — Lars Ulrich, Roger McGuinn Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Downloading Music on the Internet — July 11, 2000". Cable News Network. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/11/se.01.html. Retrieved 2008-09-21. 
  7. ^ Swift, Glenn R. (December 2008). "On Stage: Roger McGuinn". PBG Lifestyle Magazine. http://glennswift.seanreedconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Roger-McGuinn.pdf. Retrieved August 6, 2011. 
  8. ^ Moring, Mark (January 6, 2004). "No Ordinary Folk". Christianity Today. Christianity Today International. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/music/interviews/2004/rogermcguinn-0604.html. Retrieved November 26, 2011. 

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