"Eight Miles High": Saturday Music Club on Monday

The Byrds: "Eight Miles High" (perhaps their single best recording, a wonderful fusion of their folk, jazz, Indian raga, and other influences) 

The Byrds in 1966:
Gene Clark, primary songwriter, vocals, misc. instruments
Roger "Jim" McGuinn, lead guitar, vocals
David Crosby, rhythm guitar,  vocals
Chris Hillman, bass guitar, vocals
Michael Clarke, drums

On-tour film on the way to the UK tour.

Gene Clark:


Acoustic Desert Rose Band:


Hüsker Dü:


Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: (incomplete)


Maura and Pete Kennedy:


The Ventures:


Rufus Harley Band:


The Soulful Strings:


The Bob Thiele New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo:


Index:
 

Roger McGuinn and Crowded House:


The Byrds at the Fillmore East closure concert, 1971: "Jesus is Just Alright" and "8MH":

(music begins at 2:55)

Saturday Music Club: some more new acoustic, folk-rock and adjacent:

Neko Case: "This Tornado Loves You"


Kathleen Edwards Band: "Empty Threat"


Thievery Corporation: "Saudade"


Be Good Tanyas: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain"


Aimee Mann: "Satellite"


Thao Nguyen (with Maria Bamford and the Witnesses): "The Gift Card Song"


The Wailin' Jennys: "Deeper Well"


Diane Cluck: "Easy to Be Around"

from the folk/bluegrass/new acoustic/country nexus: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

Alison Brown, Sam Bush, Bobby Hicks: "Wayfaring Stranger"


Beauty and the Beard: "That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


David Amram and Friends: "Mama Don't Allow"


Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, with Dolly Parton: "Heartbreaker's Alibi"


Sierra Hull & Highway 111: "Bombshell"


Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "Never Say Never"

Lansdale with John Carter Cash and their band

Kami Thompson Band: "Your Big Secret"

Thompson acoustic and better-recorded: "Gotta Hold On"

Saturday Music Club: more newer schools of jazz and jazz-offshoot

Chamber jazz:
Chico Hamilton Quintet: "Blue Sands"


The Jazz Abstractions Band: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk (Criss Cross)"


Jan Garbarek Quartet: "Molde Canticle"


New acoustic/"New Age":
Paul Winter Consort: "Icarus"


Dave Grisman Quartet (with the Tonight Show Band): "Dawg Jazz"


Steve Tibbetts, Marc Anderson, Ani Choying Dolma:


Jazz into "world music":
Gabor Szabo: "Bacchanal"


Return to Forever: "Light as a Feather"


Randy Weston et al.: "African Rhythms"


Jazz dance:
Chico Hamilton: "Conquistadores"


Elvin Jones/Richard Davis Band: "Raunchy Rita"


Charles Mingus Band: "Ysabel's Table Dance"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "The Jasmine Tree"

 Brubeck Quartet: "Three's a Crowd":

And just because:
Toshiko Akiyoshi and John Lewis: "Willow Weep for Me"


Dave Grisman Quintet: "Dawg's Rag"