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Seems the staff over at Columbia/Legacy Recordings has caught the Byrd flu. But don't fret-- that creative/archaic spelling can only mean it's the good kind. The label will bring legendary folk rockers the Byrds back into the picture this month (have they ever really left?) with a four-CD/one-DVD collection titled There Is a Season. The set, compiled with the help of band members Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, alights on record store shelves on September 26.

The box holds a whopping 99 chronologically-arranged audio tracks, the first half or so of which feature the Byrds' original lineup-- and a couple from when they called themselves, no joke, the Beefeaters. The set also nests five previously unreleased live tracks: "He Was a Friend of Mine" (taped in April 1967 for Swedish radio), "You All Look Alike" and "Nashville West" (both from a February 28, 1970 show at New York's Queens College), and "I Trust" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do" (both from a September 23, 1970 show at New York's Fillmore East).

The DVD, meanwhile, features 10 tracks of rare television performances from 1965-1967. There Is a Season's liner notes, penned by Rolling Stone's David Fricke, include contributions from Tom Petty and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, as well as an introduction by McGuinn himself.

There Is a Season:

Disc One:

01 The Only Girl I Adore (by the Jet Set)
02 Please Let Me Love You (by the Beefeaters)
03 Don't Be Long (by the Beefeaters)
04 The Airport Song
05 You Movin'
06 You Showed Me
07 Mr. Tambourine Man
08 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
09 You Won't Have to Cry
10 Here Without You
11 The Bells of Rhymney
12 All I Really Want to Do (single version)
13 I Knew I'd Want You
14 Chimes of Freedom
15 She Has a Way
16 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
17 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)
18 It Won't Be Wrong
19 Set You Free This Time
20 The World Turns All Around Her
21 The Day Walk
22 If You're Gone
23 The Times They Are A-Changin' (withdrawn version)
24 She Don't Care About Time (single version)
25 Stranger in a Strange Land (instrumental)

Disc Two:

01 Eight Miles High
02 Why (single version)
03 5D (Fifth Dimension)
04 Wild Mountain Thyme
05 Mr. Spaceman
06 I See You
07 What's Happening?!?!
08 I Know My Rider
09 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
10 Have You Seen Her Face
11 Renaissance Fair
12 Time Between
13 Everybody's Been Burned
14 My Black Pages
15 It Happens Each Day
16 He Was a Friend of Mine (live)
17 Lady Friend
18 Old John Robertson (single version)
19 Goin' Back
20 Draft Morning
21 Wasn't Born to Follow
22 Tribal Gathering
23 Dolphin's Smile
24 Triad
25 Universal Mind Decoder (instrumental)

Disc Three:

01 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
02 I Am a Pilgrim
03 The Christian Life (Gram Parsons vocal version)
04 You Don't Miss Your Water (Gram Parsons vocal version)
05 Hickory Wind
06 One Hundred Years from Now (Gram Parsons vocal version)
07 Lazy Days (alternate version)
08 Pretty Polly (alternate version)
09 This Wheel's on Fire (alternate version)
10 Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
11 Candy
12 Child of the Universe (Candy soundtrack version)
13 Pretty Boy Floyd (live)
14 Buckaroo (instrumental/live)
15 King Apathy III (live)
16 Sing Me Back Home (live)
17 Lay Lady Lay (alternate version)
18 Oil in my Lamp (alternate version)
19 Tulsa County
20 Jesus is Just Alright
21 Chestnut Mare
22 Just a Season
23 Kathleen's Song (alternate version)
24 All the Things (alternate version)

Disc Four:

01 Lover of the Bayou (live)
02 Positively 4th Street (live)
03 Old Blue (live)
04 It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (live)
05 Ballad of Easy Rider (live)
06 You All Look Alike (live)
07 Nashville West (instrumental/live)
08 Willin' (live)
09 Black Mountain Rag (instrumental/live)
10 Baby What You Want Me to Do (live)
11 I Trust (live)
12 Take a Whiff (On Me) (live)
13 Glory, Glory
14 Byrdgrass (instrumental)
15 Pale Blue
16 I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician
17 Nothin' to It (instrumental)
18 Tiffany Queen
19 Farther Along
20 Bugler
21 Mr. Tambourine Man (Banjoman soundtrack version/live)
22 Roll Over Beethoven (Banjoman soundtrack version/live)
23 Full Circle
24 Changing Heart
25 Paths of Victory

DVD:

01 Mr. Tambourine Man
02 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
03 All I Really Want to Do
04 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
05 It Won't Be Wrong
06 Set You Free This Time
07 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
08 Mr. Tambourine Man
09 Eight Miles High
10 Mr. Spaceman

McGuinn has a solo tour lined up for the rest of eternity. Or through September of next year anyway. Dates:

10-03 Copenhagen, Denmark - Amager Bio
10-05 Sonderborg, Denmark - Sonderborghus
10-07 Esbjerg, Denmark - Tobakken
10-09 Aarup, Denmark - Industiren Theatre
10-12 Aberdare, Wales - Coliseum
10-13 Preston, England - Charter Theatre
10-15 Glasgow, Scotland - Royal Concert Hall
10-16 Gateshead, England - Sage
10-18 Worcester, England - Huntingdon Hall
10-19 Burgess Hill, England - Martlets Hall
10-21 Milton Keynes, England - Stables
10-22 Basingstoke, England - Anvil
10-24 Buxton, England - Buxton Opera House
10-25 Leeds, England - City Varieties
10-27 Manchester, England - Royal Northern College of Music
10-28 Sheffield, England - Memorial Hall
10-30 Bristol, England - St. George's Hall
10-31 London, England - Bloomsbury Theatre
11-17 Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
12-02 Mount Dora, FL - Community Building
02-26 Lake Buena Vista, FL - Coronado Springs Resort
03-16 Littleton, MA - Firehouse Coffeehouse
03-17 West Milford, NJ - Music at the Mission
03-23 West Long Branch, NJ - Monmouth University
03-24 Albany, NY - Egg
03-30 Buffalo, NY - Rockwell Hall at Buffalo St. College
03-31 Indiana, PA - Indiana University
04-06 Vienna, VA - Barns of Wolf Trap
04-21 Jupiter, FL - Jupiter Theatre
09-08 Natick, MA - Center for Arts in Natick