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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Roger McGuinn is best known as the driving force behind The Byrds. But McGuinn is also a preservationist of traditional folk music. For the past 27 years he’s been re-recording traditional folk songs and sharing them on a section of his website called The Folk Den.
On today’s episode Rick Rubin talks to Roger McGuinn about his decades-long career, which started in the early ‘60s at Greenwich Village cafes where he played with the likes of Bob Dylan and Richie Havens. McGuinn reminisces about the vibrant music scene in LA, and he also talks about meeting his Byrd’s bandmate David Crosby.
We’ll also hear Roger McGuinn play his guitar throughout the interview, and talk about how playing basketball with Bob Dylan helped inspire Dylan’s storied tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue.
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0:00.0 | I want to let you know that Rick has a new podcast called Tetrogrammerton. |
0:15.4 | After about four to five years of recording, broken record, Rick decided he wanted to talk |
0:19.6 | to more than just musicians. |
0:21.6 | So on his new podcast, he'll be talking to actors, directors, wrestlers, business people, |
0:28.2 | anyone that Rick finds interesting. |
0:30.8 | So make sure to subscribe to Tetrogrammerton, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
0:36.3 | Roger McGuin is best known as the driving force behind the birds, a group that fused folk |
0:42.4 | and popular music in the 60s. |
0:45.2 | But McGuin is also a preservationist of traditional folk music. |
0:49.5 | For the past 27 years, he's been re-recording traditional folk songs and sharing them on |
0:54.2 | a section of his website called The Folk Den. |
0:57.8 | On today's episode, Rick Rubin talks to McGuin about The Folk Den and about his decades-long |
1:02.9 | career which started in the early 60s in Greenwich Village cafes where he played alongside |
1:07.9 | the likes of Bob Dylan and Richie Havens. |
1:11.7 | McGuin reminisces two about the vibrant music scene in LA and talks about meeting his |
1:16.3 | birds bandmate David Krosby for the first time. |
1:19.5 | RIP Kros. |
1:20.8 | He'll hear McGuin play his guitar throughout the interview and also talk about how playing |
1:24.9 | basketball with Bob Dylan helped inspire Dylan's story tour the Rolling Thunder review. |
1:33.7 | This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. |
1:36.9 | I'm Justin Richmond. |
1:39.0 | Here's Rick Rubin and Roger McGuin. |
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