![]() in 1962, McGuinn received a surprise backstage visitor – pop singer/songwriter Bobby Darin hired him as a backing musician and lured him to New York with a job offer at Darin’s publishing company in the legendary Brill Building. McGuinn next joined the Chad Mitchell Trio, touring and recording with them for the next 2-1/2 years. Appearances at local folk clubs led to an invitation to tour as an accompanist with the popular Limeliters folk group, and within a few weeks of graduation, he joined the group in Los Angeles and helped record their Tonight: In Person album. Jim McGuinn, later known as Roger, was already a veteran of the New York and Los Angeles music scenes when he co-founded the group that would become The Byrds with Gene Clark and David Crosby in 1964.īorn in Chicago, the teenaged McGuinn studied banjo and guitar at the city’s Old Town School of Folk Music and was already making home recordings of his music during his final days in high school. His 2001 Appleseed CD, Treasures from the Folk Den, full of traditional favorites and special guests from Roger’s early years, was voted a Grammy finalist as “Best Traditional Folk Album.” ![]() It took more than 30 years for Roger McGuinn’s musical journey to reach full circle – from folk music back to folk music, with a lengthy break serving as a founding father of folk-rock that led to his 1991 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the leader of The Byrds, one of the most influential bands in modern musical history.
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