One Hundred Years From Now - The Byrds

One Hundred Years From Now - The Byrds 
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Sweetheart Of the Rodeo, 1968
Written by Gram Parsons

This song captures Parsons' vision of country rock (if by rock you mean softer 1970s rock) at its purest crossroads, where twang meets jangle, and Bakersfield meets Laurel Canyon. Lloyd Green's pedal steel provides the track's keening hook, while Clarence White adds clean, understated guitar lines that dance around the melody without ever intruding. The result feels like the missing link between The Everly Brothers and Hank Williams, music that belongs equally to country and rock, proof those genres twine their roots in the same soil.  Equally, its sound could just as easily be heard drifting from a crackling, century-old shellac 78 as from modern headphones..  The song's message is enough to give one pause: nearly sixty years later, we're nowhere near to any answers to the questions it poses.  "Nobody knows what kind of trouble we're in / Nobody seems to think it all might happen again."  It keeps on happening.