It’s McGuinn’s best solo album by a wide margin and it comes completely out of nowhere, released in 1991, a full decade after McGuinn was last in the studio. It was Roger McGuinn’s 12 string Rickenbacker guitar.īack From Rio is a revelation. It was a sound that I’d heard on record thousands and thousands of times, but to hear it in person was truly something else. It’s the sound that defined folk rock and inspired “jangle pop” and the careers of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, R.E.M., The Smiths, The Bangles and more. It was one of the most iconic sounds in the history of music: the chiming of Roger McGuinn’s 12 string Rickenbacker guitar.
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