Roger McGuinn

Roger McGuinn Reveals He Didn't Want to Work With David Crosby 10/30/2009

Roger McGuinn Tried to Sway Metallica on Downloads 10/22/2009

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 10/04/2009

Pete Seeger Marks His 90th Year On A Concert Bash 07/28/2009

Sonic Youths 06/22/2009

As the frontman of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. in the process. James Joseph McGuinn was born on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, where by his teenage years he was already something of a folk music prodigy. After ...more