Chris Hillman is one of the most underrated musicians ever. He made every band he was in better, and worked with some of the biggest egos in the business!
This is real music. Thank God for Chris Hillman & Roger Mcguinn. Miss you David Crosby. You should've been here. Thank you all for all the great music. The Byrds.
You know Chris Hillman just looks like the son every man would be proud to have. He is just an awesome person who can play and write songs like everyone would love to be able to. As a father I would be proud of him.
I don't care for how Dylan did it even though he wrote it. I don't care for him as an entertainer/singer at all but he is a great song writer...The Dirt band did a version of this song that's really good also.
Chris Hillman has a nice voice. I never knew until now. I would have loved to see him and Roger do a Desperado-type album. I think they really could have given the Eagles good competition.
I think the closest we’ll hear is when Marty Stuart plays anything and especially any time he’s collaborated with Roger and Chris. They did a tour in the ‘teens.
They blend together so well -- but then they also did on Notorious Byrd Brothers ! ---Who knew - back when the shy Hillman stood in the background , almost hiding when the Byrds hit the scene - didn't write songs or talk much . What a pleasant surprise when Younger Than Yesterday came out .
I have all of Chris’s solo albums as well as the ones he made with the Desert Rose Band. He was also in an early group called The Hillmen with the fabulous late Vern Gosdin. Chris H is one of my all-time favorites.
Have watched Sean Colvin, Roseanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter perform this in the 1992 Dylan concert (on dvd or Youube that is). I believe this is what they watched or heard of back then. Roger may have taught them. Anyway, i love this performance bu Chris and Roger!! Been playing along to the video tonight. 02-06-24.
McGuinn sings "pack up your money and pick up your tent" by mistake n Dylan called him out when he sang "pick up your money and pack up your tent" then added "McGuinn" that's why McGuinn added Dylan.
this was just one of the miracles of the 1960s..rock musicians which included the blues etc channelled country and bluegrass music. just like that they captured the spirit of basic American country jug music. the grateful dead especially Jerry Garcia did the same thing.
I just checked that out. I had heard the version on "will the circle be unbroken" album where he tells about Dylan being laid up with a broken leg, but I love the part about him screwing up the lyrics and Dylan calling him out on it. I always wondered why he said "Dylan" after that line on that recording. I'm heading to Loveland Co to see Jimmy Ibbotson and John McEuen this Friday evening. Really looking forward to that!
'Pack up your money, pick up your tent, Dylan'! I love that McGuinn mistake that lives on in this song and the tributes that many have made referring to the mistake of swapping pack and pick...
Hard to believe that Chris was on 15 years old and Roger was 12 when they started the Byrds. But then again, they were so much older then they're younger then that now.
Have you seen the live version from 1968 (LA I think), with Clarence White and John York? The footage is poor but it is by far the best version I have heard.
Love the comments coming from people who blindly fell for the music back in the 60's and 70's and were not aware or interested as to what was really happening in the US music recording industry during that time period, or their $$$. Fools who did not see how they were being minupulated back then and NOW giving "explanations" for their failure to learn while trying to "sound wise". (My excuse? Forced to march to Bossa Nova music in high school which lead to an interest in World Music vs US rock's Fantasyland.)
Don't bother with just one song from this wonderful album. Go out and buy it and listen to it all. YOU'LL BE DELIGHTED..... Will The Circle Be Unbroken volume 2".
"Pick up your tent, Dylan." Hahahaha! That's an inside joke. He got the lyrics wrong when he recorded it with the Byrds, and Dylan gave him a hard time about it.
Dylan sang in a concert afterwards "Pick up your money and pack up your tent, McGuinn, you ain´t going nowhere"! It was with great humour McGuinn returned it here!!
+Jennifer Copus The vocalists are the two old original Byrds- Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman who recorded the song in 1968 in Nashville for their Sweetheart of the Rodeo album. You can search out Roger McGuinn doing this with Marty Stuart and he tells the story behind the recording.
