Country Rock

1968-Present

After a brief hiatus in after his motorcycle accident”  Dylan emerged once again directed a trend to dig deep into America’s Americana blues,/folk/pop and also the Country & Western music that had so inspired him as a kid. Dylan invented another modern rock genre called “Country Rock” with the help of “the Hawks” later to be dubbed “The Band” to influence many of the super-groups of the1970s southern rock and hard rock genres.

The Byrds came out with 2 country rock masterpieces and Gram Parsons. The Nitty Gritty Band, Emmylou Harris, Joanie Mitchell, Linda Rondstadt, Poco, Tim Hardin, Flying Burrito Brothers

Key Country Rock recordings 

Dylans two C&W offerings 1967’s “John Wesley Harding” and 1968 “Nashville Skyline”; The Byrds albums “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” and the Byrd/Gram Parsons C&W masterpiece “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”; Flying Burrito Brothers two albums “The Gilded Palace of Sin” and 1970 “Burrito Deluxe”; Gram Parsons with International Submarine Band released “Safe at Home” in 1968; Pure Praire League “Bustin Out” released 1972, “Two Lane Highway” released June 1975; The Eagles “Desperado” and “On the Border;  Jim Messina & Richie Fury (Poco), John Fogarty (CCR), Mike Nesmith (the Monkees), Charlie Daniels Band”The Devil Went Down to Georgia”

 

Other Country Rock artists

Diverse groups but with a common popular light country with rock and roll which led to bands as diverse as the Beau Brummels, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, Glen Campbell, Lynard Skynard, the Band, New Riders of the Purple SageCreedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, Neil Young and George Harrison and much of the light rock sub-genre all influenced in one way or another by country & western music.

Later, this sub-genre would have enormous influence on the “new” Country Music of the late 1980s and on through the 1990s into the 21st century.