#Doug Dillard

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Doug Dillard, LSD Trip or Trap, 1969

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Music Monday - Dillard & Clark

Don’t Let Me Down Train Leaves Here this Mornin’ Lyin’ Down the Middle Polly Four Walls The Radio Song Dark Hollow Image from the New York Times – Doug Dillard, Bluegrass Banjo Virtuoso, Dies at 75 Doug Dillard, left, with Gene Clark, one of the founders of the Byrds. The men formed their own duo, Dillard and Clark.Credit…A&M Records ~ ~ ~ ~ June 12, 2023Brooklyn, New York

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43: Dillard & Clark // The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark Dillard & Clark 1968, A&M

The story of Gene Clark has been told often enough that I don’t have a ton to add to it. The one-time leader of The Byrds who wrote “Eight Miles High,” but whose terror of flying was such that it largely prevented him from touring behind a succession of cult classic solo albums, and was thus doomed to commercial irrelevance, substance abuse, and early death. Some of the ‘tragedy’ of Gene Clark’s life is a little difficult to square with what that word means in a post-indie rock world: the man had a fifteen-year run putting out exactly the kind of music he wanted on major labels with little apparent interference from the suits or pressure to get, like, a job. Whenever money became particularly tight, there was usually a Byrds reunion to be had with some combination of Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman, or a younger star would cover one of his old chestnuts and he’d be flush again. It’s hard for a slacker like me to imagine how great Clark’s expectations must’ve been for that not to have been enough—but then, I’ve never had the knowledge of how much more money David Crosby has than I do rubbed in my face in quite as personal a way, I guess.

The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark is Clark’s second post-Byrds effort, and the first of his short-lived collaboration with banjo ace Doug Dillard, formerly of pioneering electric bluegrass act The Dillards. It’s fascinating how much of the development of country rock as a genre took place within a loose confederation of Byrds affiliates in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The connections between acts like Clark, Gram Parsons, the Flying Burrito Brothers, CSNY, and even Bob Dylan would be better represented using a phylogenetic tree than text, but there is a sense of all these sometime, former, and nearly-bandmates jamming and composing together from a distance. It feels like they were all being drawn inexorably to co-author some ultimate new idea of American guitar music. (Though it’s unfortunate that that idea turned out to be, essentially, “The Eagles.”)

Clark is neither as personable a singer nor as distinctive a lyricist as Gram Parsons, which may be why his solo work is less intensely mythologized, but his fusion of folk, rock, and country also feels less like a pastiche than Parsons’ music does. Many of these songs, all but one composed by Clark with Dillard and/or future Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, feel so organic it’s hard to believe they aren’t some pre-rock missing link between Merle Travis and the Everly Brothers (see “She Darked the Sun”).

By contrast, “The Radio Song” feels flung completely out of time. On paper, its combination of Dillard’s ambling banjo and an electric harpsichord seems like it’d be similar to the overwrought ‘Bach-rock’ of the Left Banke, but the result is cosmic and introverted in equal measure. The lyric is a fairly standard loser’s lament, but something about the anachronistic arrangement brings to mind American vagabonds drinking away their sorrows in a Viennese court.

Other numbers push the chiming folk rock sound Clark pioneered with the Byrds beyond anything they produced without him. “Something’s Wrong” marries a back porch Appalachian melody to an uneasy, death-shrouded lyric that casts its sun-dappled banjo and mandolin as evocations of a youth that will never return. Clark’s haunted vocal is one of his best, alternating poignantly between the imagistic nostalgia of the verse and the existential angst of the refrains.

The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark deserves its posthumous re-evaluation as one of the great records of the late ‘60s, and I’d rate it about on a par with Parsons’ Grievous Angel and above anything in the Byrds or Flying Burrito Brothers catalogues. If you disagree, buy me a drink and we can talk about it.

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Doug Dillard playing a Rickenbacker banjo.

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Taylor Zachry & Erin Rae

Erin Rae returns to AD with her third Lagniappe Session, this time as a duo with Taylor Zachry. A callback of sorts to her initial session from 2019, this installment once again finds the Nashville based singer-songwriter paying tribute to the enduring work of the late Gene Clark, covering “Out On The Side” and “Polly” – both tunes via Clark’s own late sixties collaboration with banjo player Doug Dillard.

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1969

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my friend videodrome from 1983

1969 has lots of good music but im going with don't let down by dillard & clark this is a good cover of a beatles song the duo who sing this are also interesting because it's doug dillard from the dillards and gene clark from the byrds

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Banjo in the Hollow (Doug Dillard)

Applejack plays an old banjo tune called Banjo in the Hollow by Doug Dillard of the Bluegrass band The Dillards.

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Banjo in the Hollow

Hatsune Miku plays Banjo in the Hollow by Doug Dillard.

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I just want you guys to know that one time Doug Dillard was hanging out at Gene Clark's house and they heard someone outside shout "Come out with your hands up you are under arrest"

So they panicked, flushed all their drugs and began to crawl on the floor. They heard the voice again over a megaphone "Come out with your hands up you are under arrest!"

Thinking they were being held at gunpoint, they came up with the idea to tie Doug's underwear to a broomstick and stick it out the window as a sign of surrender to the police.

Turns out that they were filming a movie nearby and they overheard it...

I wish I was joking....

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Doug: Do you think lava would taste spicy?

Donna: Please DO NOT eat lava, David tell him not to eat lava!

David: *Without looking up from his bass* You go be an idiot without me.

Gene: Actually, since lava is molten earth, it would probably taste very bland and dusty.

Doug: You’re the only one who understands me.

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do me o she does me yes she does

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Doug Dillard with The Byrds.

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Bootlegs of The Byrds are worth exploring. This line-up from a live show in Italy features Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, and Doug Dillard.

Dillard was a god of country rock. He recorded two albums with former Byrds member Gene Clark. The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark in 1968 and Through the Morning Through the Night in 1969 are arguably the two best country rock albums of the 1960s and I recommend you seek them out.

Doug Dillard’s bluegrass group The Dillards were also regulars on The Andy Griffith Show in the early 1960s.