Thunderbyrd

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title: "Thunderbyrd" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["roger-mcguinn-albums", "1977-albums", "albums-produced-by-don-devito", "columbia-records-albums"] description: "Album by Roger McGuinn" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbyrd" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Album by Roger McGuinn ::

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Field	Value
name	Thunderbyrd
type	studio
artist	Roger McGuinn
cover	Album Thunderbyrd cover.jpg
released	March 1977
recorded	1976
studio	Wally Heider Studios, Haji Sound
genre	Rock
length	37:34
label	Columbia
producer	Don DeVito
prev_title	Cardiff Rose
prev_year	1976
next_title	McGuinn, Clark & Hillman
next_year	1978
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| name = Thunderbyrd | type = studio | artist = Roger McGuinn | cover = Album Thunderbyrd cover.jpg | alt = | released = March 1977 | recorded = 1976 | venue = | studio = Wally Heider Studios, Haji Sound | genre = Rock | length = 37:34 | label = Columbia | producer = Don DeVito | prev_title = Cardiff Rose | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = McGuinn, Clark & Hillman | next_year = 1978 |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = |rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide |rev2Score = B |rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide |rev3score = Thunderbyrd is an album by the American musician Roger McGuinn, released in 1977 on the Columbia Records label. Following the success of his 1976 album Cardiff Rose, McGuinn intended to make another album in collaboration with its producer Mick Ronson. This project however never materialized. Instead he put together a new band, Thunderbyrd, and recorded this album with them.{{cite AV media notes | title = Born to Rock and Roll | title-link = Born to Rock and Roll | year = 1991 | first = Andrew | last = Sandova |page=10 | type = CD booklet | publisher = Columbia | id = CK 47494

The album contains four original compositions by McGuinn and his old songwriting collaborator Jacques Levy. It also includes a version of Tom Petty's "American Girl", originally a hit the year before from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers's eponymous debut album.

Thunderbyrd was not well received by critics or record buyers and was to be McGuinn's last solo album until 1991's Back from Rio.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jacques Levy and Roger McGuinn except where noted.

1. "All Night Long" (Peter Frampton, Mick Gallagher) – 4:19
2. "It's Gone" – 3:57
3. "Dixie Highway" – 3:29
4. "American Girl" (Tom Petty) – 4:30
5. "We Can Do It All Over Again" (Barry Goldberg, Mentor Williams) – 4:44
6. "Why Baby Why" (Darrell Edwards, George Jones) – 3:48
7. "I'm Not Lonely Anymore" – 3:07
8. "Golden Loom" (Bob Dylan) – 4:07
9. "Russian Hill" – 5:03

Personnel

• Roger McGuinn – vocals, guitar
• Rick Vito – guitars, vocals, dobro, harmonica
• Charlie Harrison – bass, vocals
• Greg Thomas – drums, percussion with:
• Marty Grebb – keyboards
• Tom Scott – saxophone solo on "American Girl"
• Janis Oliver-Gill, Kristine Oliver-Arnold, Jennifer O'Neill – backing vocals on "We Can Do It All Over Again"
• Bruce Barlow – bass on "It's Gone" and "Russian Hill"
• Steve Forman – percussion on "Russian Hill"

Notes

References

1. [{{AllMusic
2. Christgau, Robert. (1981). "[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]". [[Ticknor & Fields]].
3. (1992). "The Rolling Stone Album Guide". Random House.

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