{"product_id":"the-byrds-mr-tambourine-man","title":"The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man is back on 180-gram vinyl, the 1965 debut that plugged Bob Dylan into a Rickenbacker and helped invent folk rock in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by Terry Melcher for Columbia, the album caught Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke at the very start of their story, a group of folk-scene refugees who had fallen hard for the Beatles. Their electrified take on Dylan's title song became a transatlantic number one and changed the direction of American rock almost overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcGuinn's chiming 12-string is the signature sound, ringing through \"Mr. Tambourine Man\" and a gorgeous \"Chimes of Freedom.\" Gene Clark's \"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better\" is one of the great jangle-pop songs of the decade, and \"The Bells of Rhymney,\" a Welsh poem set to music by Pete Seeger, shows the band's knack for turning folk material into shimmering pop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose soaring harmonies, borrowed from folk but sharpened by Beatlemania, make even the gentlest songs feel urgent and fresh, and the whole record still glows with the excitement of a band discovering its own sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor any collection built on the 1960s, this is foundational listening, and it still sounds like the dawn of something big.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57269572993329,"sku":"8718469530465","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/The_Byrds-Mr._Tambourine_Man.jpg?v=1793640033","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/the-byrds-mr-tambourine-man","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}