The 1979 debut album for three founding Byrds members. After several solo albums from Gene Clark, and Roger Mcguinn, and Chris Hillman being a part of the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band in the early seventies the former Byrds members teamed up again.
With Johnny Burnette‘s ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ this album has a killer opening track and is the beginning of over 35 minutes of red hot rockabilly ‘n roll. Looking back nowadays on 1981’s “Gonna Ball”, it seems like a minor masterpiece and probably the Stray Cats’ finest album.
Circle II” features largely acoustic, bluegrass music instrumentation with a line-up of contemporary country music artists that includes Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs. Other artists represent the rock, folk and pop genres, including Levon Helm from The Band, and Bruce Hornsby.