Welcome Back Home
1970 · Columbia CG 30127 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- The Byrds
- Title
- Welcome Back Home
- Release
- (Untitled)
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Columbia # CG 30127
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
Annotation
The song "Welcome Back Home" (Columbia Records # CG 30127), written by Skip Battin who took over on bass for the Byrds from John York in 1969, expressed concern for the soldiers returning home to the US - a theme usually found in post-Vietnam war songs. Battin said in a 1979 interview with Johnny Rogan, in the book The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (p. 315) that "I was personally touched by the Vietnam situation, and my feelings about it came out in that song. I had a high school friend who died out there and I guess my thoughts were on him at the time". (1) Thanks koeeoaddi_there
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American folk-rock band formed 1964 in Los Angeles, California; disbanded 1973 ('Draft Morning'). [Source: Wikipedia]