I believe that, up until now, every "Midnight Special" album I've made mainly consisted of music by the main host of that particular episode of the show. But McGuinn never hosted the show. However, he did appear on it a bunch of times in 1973 and 1974. So I cobbled all those performances from different episodes to get enough material for an album.
As mentioned above, the first two songs here are actually from when McGuinn was the leader of the Byrds. He led that band from 1964 to 1973. The existing version of the band broke up in February 1973. The first two songs come from the episode aired February 2, 1973. That almost certainly was filmed on some unknown date in January 1973. But, even so, it probably was one of the very last appearances by that version of the band. Meanwhile, in late 1972, McGuinn recorded a reunion album with the original members of the Byrds. Their self-titled reunion album came out in March 1973. But it wasn't received that well (even though I think it's a very good album), so there was no tour. McGuinn decided to go solo after that.
The next songs, "Mr. Spaceman" and "Sweet Mary," come from an episode aired on November 21, 1973. The host for that episode was Jose Feliciano. I've kept his introduction to one of the songs. The final songs from the show are tracks 6, 7, and 8. They're from the August 9, 1974 episode.
There are no more appearances by McGuinn on the show until one that took much later, in 1979, when he was a member of the band McGuinn, Clark and Hillman. I didn't want to include that due to the time gap. Besides, a high quality version hasn't been released on YouTube yet.
All the songs mentioned above combine to only 21 minutes, which is too short for an album, in my opinion. Luckily, though, I found a performance McGuinn and his band did on a similar TV show at the time, "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." They played a bunch of songs for an episode that aired on March 8, 1975. So I used that to fill out the rest of this album. I didn't include two songs though, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Mr. Spaceman," since I already have versions of those here from the "Midnight Special."
There was a problem with the first song, though, "Lover of the Bayou." The start of the song was missing, including most of the first verse. So I found another version (from a concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in 1975) and used that to patch in the missing portion. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.
The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is 36 minutes long.
01 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
02 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
03 talk by Jose Feliciano (Roger McGuinn)
04 Mr. Spaceman (Roger McGuinn)
05 Sweet Mary (Roger McGuinn)
06 Gate of Horn (Roger McGuinn)
07 Peace on You (Roger McGuinn)
08 Better Change (Roger McGuinn)
09 Lover of the Bayou [Edit] (Roger McGuinn)
10 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn)
11 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
12 Do What You Want to Do (Roger McGuinn)
13 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
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The cover image is from one of the Midnight Special episodes here.
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