The Byrds are of course, famous for taking the brilliant songs of folk and Bob Dylan and wrapping them up in delicate harmonies and chiming 12 string guitars. This brought such music to a much wider mainstream audience. No more so, than on the title song of this record, Turn! Turn! Turn!. Along with 'Good vibrations' and 'I wanna hold your hand' it just seems to check all the right boxes for the perfect pop song. It rings out today as perfectly as it did over 40 years ago, and its call for peace us just as relevant now as then.

There is less reliance on Bob Dylan covers on this album than on the first. But B. Dylan does raise his head a few times on the writing credits. Such as on 'Lay down your weary tune'. According to the liner notes, Dylan himself was impressed and told the Byrds so. It was the the real meaning of the singing that impressed.

'He was a friend of mine' is another traditional folk song which was lended new meaning to and by McGuinn after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.

There are bonus tracks on this Sundazed release. 'She don't care about time' was the B-side to Turn! Turn! Turn! and is another chiming beauty. It is mono here and is a bit uncertain in sound quality. 'Stranger in a srange land' is a rocking instrumental. Gorgeous guitar work and a hypnotic drumbeat.

'The world turns all around her', written by Gene Ckark, tells of how he still loves the girl, the ex-girlfriend. Gorgeous twanging guitars and the usual perfect harmonies.

'Satisfied mind' provides an example of their country influences. It elevates this country classic to a message from angels. But tunewise, less adventurous than others.

The liner notes say that the next track was an 'ironic' reading of Dylan's 'The times they are a changin'. I wonder how they felt about that one. It is a nippy reading which doesn't hang around.

'Wait and see', apart from the 12 stringed guitars sounds a bit like early Beatles and deals with the same boy/girl romance subject as many of the Beatle's tracks.

The final song on the original was a faster version of that old chestnut, 'Oh Susannah'. Its a fun tune and, with the Byrds trademarks is anjoyable to listen to.

On this Sundazed reissue, the actual last track is a version of 'The time they are a changin'. The first version. Its faster and more cluttered but a worthy edition. Completely different tempt to the one they finally went with.

Sundazed do themselves proud with these reissues. The record is pressed on 180grm vinyl and housed in a plastic lined inner sleeve protection, within a gatefold sleeve. that gatefold includes copious liner notes. The original ones from the orginal release and some notes on each track. There are three bonus tracks on the LP, all worthwhile. Sound quality is very good, mastered from the original master, and let down only by those tapes. Most racks here are stereo, but some are mono. Vinyl pressing is excellent.