{"id":1679,"date":"2018-06-08T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:41:37","slug":"song-of-the-week-eight-miles-high-by-the-byrds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Eight Miles High&#8221; by The Byrds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Eight Miles High&#8221; by The Byrds:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J74ttSR8lEg\" width=\"352\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite album by The Byrds is <em>Sweetheart of the Rodeo<\/em> because I love all that country twang and Gram Parsons, and when I first heard it back in the mid 1990s it opened my ears to sounds I hadn&#8217;t really listened to very hard before.\u00a0 But sometimes you really want full-blown psychedelic excitement, and &#8220;Eight Miles High&#8221; gives you exactly that, as close to perfection as is reasonable to ask for. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s an almost ten-minute live version from 1970<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Eight%20Miles%20High%22%20by%20The%20Byrds\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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