Just When Was “Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers” Released?
Apparently not on the same day as the Byrds’ “Younger than Yesterday”
GENE CLARK’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM came almost a year after his final record with the Byrds. For a long time, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers was considered rather lightweight, especially from the man who wrote songs such as “She Don’t Care About Time,” “Set You Free This Time,” and “Eight Miles High” while with the Byrds. The passing of time has been kind to Clark’s first album and now many long-time fans (such as me) and thousands of younger listeners consider it a gem!
It was one of the most remarkable recordings in rock and pop music history, a progenitor of jazz-rock (or fusion) and the first psychedelic record to be a major AM radio hit. This only made the commercial failure of Clark’s solo records all the more puzzling, at least to fans of Clark and the Byrds in the ’60s.
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers was ignored by all but a few diehard fans for years. Fortunately, it has grown from having a small hardcore fan following to having a much larger critical and fan following over the past few decades.
When I researched this album for my previous article (“Why Isn’t Gene Clark in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame”), I came across one of two…
