Byrd Song
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| Byrd Song | ||||
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| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1964 New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 36:12 | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP 481 | |||
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Byrd Song (subtitled Charlie Byrd with Voices) is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.[1]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "the vocal component of the record feel[s] like an afterthought. And not an especially inspired one, either; the white-bread soothing choruses sound like refugees from straight easy listening records. The album's actually for the most part a typical, if low-key, Byrd session... When played just by the trio, it's fine, with sterling Byrd guitar, though the less sappy and more forceful material (like "Wildcat") overshadows the more conventional romantic standards. When those voices enter, though, it treads on the annoyingly saccharine.[2]