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Gene Clark's Songwriting Lifted the Byrds

Let It Roll

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The Birds Are the Kingpins of the Music Business

The birds were the kingpins before that time and they helped really launch a whole LA folk rock sound. Once tambourine man was released in April it took off fast which when you consider how different it was It just had such a penal to it. The songwriter got paid before anybody else before the band would see any royalties as a group.

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