jon byrd wrote:
> Considering R. McG. ended up doing 700 Club commercials for Pat
> Robertson I now wonder if there was ever any irony in it.
I know! While I took it entirely ironically at first, I only learned as
time went on that McGuinn and Parsons, each in their own ways, were
understanding the gesture in different ways.
Still, just to consider that album, it took a lot more moxie to put
*that* tune on there than "You're Still on My Mind" or "Pretty Boy Floyd"
or whatever.... To cover a trad song is one thing, but to cover a
Christian song like that in 68 or 69, was quite another.
It was a pretty strange choice of material and, in their environment, a
pretty bold one....
--jr.
