Silver Meteor : A Progressive Country

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Product Description The 12 tracks are highlighted by Clarence White's 4 recordings for a planned 1973 solo album but never completed.. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 collection. Silver Meteor: A Progressive Country Anthology was originally released on Sierra to rave reviews. The original 12 classic selections were highlighted by Clarence White's four recordings for his planned 1973 solo album, an album he never completed. Hear all those original 12 tracks on this compact disc plus an additional 14 bonus tracks that were planned for a Volume Two back in early 80s but never released including rare, sometimes unreleased recordings by the Country Gazette, Paul Siebel, Michael Dinner, Rick Cunha, Ian Matthews, Red Rhodes, and others Review Subtitled ‘A Progressive Country Anthology’, this excellent set might be noteworthy solely for its brace of rootsy – and rare – 1969 cuts from The Everly Brothers. But the presence of four won’t-find-’em-anywhere-else tracks from The Byrds’ preternaturally talented guitarist Clarence White – recorded in June 1973, just two weeks before his death – have given Silver Meteor elevated status in country rock circles. After The Byrds’ dissolution in late ’72, White secured a solo deal with Warners, and set about pioneering a startling brand of bluegrass and rock with fiddler Byron Berline, guitarist Herb Pederson and mandolin ace (and brother) Roland White. The results – including “Why You Been Gone So Long” with Ry Cooder on slide – are consistently astonishing, and hint all-too-briefly at the directions ’70s country might have taken. --UnCut (U.K.) Magazine