Inspired by The Byrds

Inspired by The Byrds

Wherever bands use soaring harmonies and joyously jangling guitars, they're tracing the flight path of The Byrds. It's there in The Beatles' “If I Needed Someone” and The Monkees' “What Am I Doing Hangin' ‘Round,” where everything chimes and sparkles. Their spangled six-string arpeggios were adapted by R.E.M. and The Smiths in the '80s, and then Wilco and The Jayhawks took note of their cosmic country side and ran with it.

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