There Is a Season

Infobox Album
Name = There Is a Season
Type = box
Artist = The Byrds


Released = September 26, 2006
Recorded = 1964-1990
Genre = Folk rock, country rock
Length = 4:40:20
Label = Legacy, Columbia Records
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:dxfexqqdld6e link]
* Pitchfork Media (8.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/38742-there-is-a-season link]
Last album = "The Essential Byrds" (2003)
This album = "There Is a Season" (2006)
Next album =

"There Is a Season" is a 4-CD, career-spanning 2006 boxed set by American folk rock band The Byrds. It includes material from all of the band's studio albums and all periods of The Byrds' history. It supplants an earlier, self-titled 4-CD boxed set "The Byrds", released in 1990. Although the two compilations are similar, there are some differences: There Is A Season features material from the band's early demo material and their 1973 reunion album (both which were absent from the 1990 set), more songs by founding member Gene Clark and a somewhat greater proportion of tunes from the band's popular original lineup.

Track listing

Disc one

# "The Only Girl I Adore" (Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn) - 2:26
#* performed by The Jet Set
# "Please Let Me Love You" (Clark, McGuinn, Harvey Gerst) - 2:23
#* performed by The Beefeaters
# "Don't Be Long" (McGuinn, Gerst) - 1:56
#* performed by The Beefeaters
# "The Airport Song" (McGuinn, David Crosby) - 2:03
# "You Movin'" (Clark) - 2:08
# "You Showed Me" (Clark, McGuinn) - 2:04
# "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Bob Dylan) - 2:32
# "I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better" (Clark) - 2:34
# "You Won't Have to Cry" (Clark, McGuinn) - 2:10
# "Here Without You" (Clark) - 2:39
# "The Bells of Rhymney" (Idris Davies, Pete Seeger) - 3:33
# "All I Really Want to Do" (Dylan) - 2:05 (single version)
# "I Knew I'd Want You" (Clark) - 2:17
# "Chimes of Freedom" (Dylan) - 3:54
# "She Has a Way" (Clark) - 2:27
# "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) - 3:05
# "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" (Seeger) - 3:52
# "It Won't Be Wrong" (McGuinn, Gerst) - 2:00
# "Set You Free This Time" (Clark) - 2:51
# "The World Turns All Around Her" (Clark) - 2:15
# "The Day Walk" (Clark) - 3:03
# "If You're Gone" (Clark) - 2:47
# "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (Dylan) - 1:56 (withdrawn version)
# "She Don't Care About Time" (Clark) - 2:32 (single version)
# "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Crosby) - 3:03 (instrumental)

Disc two

# "Eight Miles High (Clark, Crosby, McGuinn) - 3:37
# "Why" (Crosby, McGuinn) - 3:01 (single version)
# "5D (Fifth Dimension)" (McGuinn) - 2:35
# "Wild Mountain Thyme" (traditional, arranged: McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke, Crosby) - 2:32
# "Mr. Spaceman" (McGuinn) - 2:12
# "I See You" (Crosby, McGuinn) - 2:40
# "What's Happening?!?!" (Crosby) - 2:37
# "I Know My Rider" (McGuinn, Hillman, Crosby) - 2:46
# "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (McGuinn, Hillman) - 2:08
# "Have You Seen Her Face" (Hillman) - 2:42
# "Renaissance Fair" (Crosby, McGuinn) - 1:54
# "Time Between" (Hillman) - 1:55
# "Everybody's Been Burned" (Crosby) - 3:07
# "My Back Pages" (Dylan) - 3:10
# "It Happens Each Day" (Crosby) - 2:47
# "He Was a Friend of Mine" (traditional, arranged: McGuinn) - 2:39 (live)
# "Lady Friend" (Crosby) - 2:33
# "Old John Robertson" (Hillman, McGuinn) - 1:52 (single version)
# "Goin' Back" (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) - 3:28
# "Draft Morning" (Crosby, Hillman, McGuinn) - 2:43
# "Wasn't Born to Follow" (King, Goffin) - 2:04
# "Tribal Gathering" (Crosby, Hillman) - 2:04
# "Dolphin's Smile" (Crosby, Hillman, McGuinn) - 2:01
# "Triad" (Crosby) - 3:31
# "Universal Mind Decoder" (Hillman, McGuinn) - 3:27 (instrumental)

Disc three

# "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Dylan) - 2:35
# "I Am a Pilgrim" (traditional, arranged: McGuinn, Hillman) - 3:39
# "The Christian Life" (Charlie Louvin, Ira Louvin) - 2:29 (Gram Parsons vocal version)
# "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell) - 3:49 (Gram Parsons vocal version)
# "Hickory Wind" (Bob Buchanan, Parsons) - 3:32
# "One Hundred Years from Now" (Parsons) - 2:53 (Gram Parsons vocal version)
# "Lazy Days" (Parsons) - 3:18 (alternate version)
# "Pretty Polly" (traditional, arranged: McGuinn, Hillman) - 3:34 (alternate version)
# "This Wheel's on Fire" (Dylan, Rick Danko) - 3:54 (alternate version)
# "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (McGuinn, Parsons) - 3:54
# "Candy" (McGuinn, John York) - 3:38
# "Child of the Universe" (Dave Grusin, McGuinn) - 3:11 ("Candy" soundtrack version)
# "Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie) - 2:48 (live)
# "Buckaroo" (Bob Morris) - 2:04 (live instrumental)
# "King Apathy III" (McGuinn) - 3:13 (live)
# "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) - 3:05 (live)
# "Lay Lady Lay" (Dylan) - 3:18 (alternate version)
# "Oil in My Lamp" (traditional, arranged: McGuinn, Hillman) - 2:03
# "Tulsa County" (Pamela Polland) - 2:48
# "Jesus Is Just Alright" (Arthur Reynolds) - 2:10
# "Chestnut Mare"( Jacques Levy, McGuinn) - 5:08
# "Just a Season" (Levy, McGuinn) - 3:52
# "Kathleen's Song" (Levy, McGuinn) - 2:39 (alternate version)
# "All the Things" (Levy, McGuinn) - 4:56 (alternate version)

Disc four

# "Lover of the Bayou" (Levy, McGuinn) - 3:39 (live)
# "Positively 4th Street" (Dylan) - 3:06 (live)
# "Old Blue" (McGuinn) - 3:30 (live)
# "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (Dylan) - 2:52 (live)
# "Ballad of Easy Rider" (McGuinn) - 2:10 (live)
# "You All Look Alike" (Skip Battin, Kim Fowley) - 3:08 (live)
# "Nashville West" (Gene Parsons, Clarence White) - 2:12 (live instrumental)
# "Willin'" (Lowell George) - 3:13 (live)
# "Black Mountain Rag" (traditional, arranged: White, McGuinn) - 1:19 (live instrumental)
# "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed) - 3:48 (live)
# "I Trust" (McGuinn) - 4:03 (live)
# "Take a Whiff (On Me)" (Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, White, McGuinn) - 2:56 (live)
# "Glory, Glory" (Reynolds) - 4:00
# "Byrdgrass" (Parsons, White) - 1:44 (instrumental)
# "Pale Blue" (McGuinn) - 2:23
# "I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician" (Levy, McGuinn) - 2:03
# "Nothin' to It" (Doc Watson) - 1:39 (instrumental)
# "Tiffany Queen" (McGuinn) - 2:42
# "Farther Along" (White) - 2:58
# "Bugler" (Larry Murray) - 3:08
# "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Dylan) - 2:59 (live)
# "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) - 3:02 (live)
# "Full Circle" (Clark) - 2:43
# "Changing Heart" (Clark) - 2:43
# "Paths of Victory" (Dylan) - 3:10