![Via “Four for the Fourth”, NPR:
Wasn’t Born to Follow
Artist: Original Soundtrack
Album: Easy Rider [Expanded]
Many events in 1969 changed how Americans viewed their country: Woodstock, the continuing Vietnam War, the Moon landing and the Chicago Seven trial, to name a few. And for the first time, mainstream America was viewing its counterculture on the big screen in films such as Easy Rider. In the midst of motorcycles, mutton chops and a lengthy acid trip, audiences saw a wild America, the one between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Suddenly, the American highway was the kind of place where you could get lost in the wonder and Easy Rider had its soundtrack. Penned by songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the oh-so appropriately-titled “Wasn’t Born to Follow” by The Byrds is an easy-going psychedelic-country song about aimless wandering and the choice to do so. —Lars Gotrich
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Via “Four for the Fourth”, NPR:
Wasn’t Born to Follow
Artist: Original Soundtrack
Album: Easy Rider [Expanded]
Many events in 1969 changed how Americans viewed their country: Woodstock, the continuing Vietnam War, the Moon landing and the Chicago Seven trial, to name a few. And for the first time, mainstream America was viewing its counterculture on the big screen in films such as Easy Rider. In the midst of motorcycles, mutton chops and a lengthy acid trip, audiences saw a wild America, the one between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Suddenly, the American highway was the kind of place where you could get lost in the wonder and Easy Rider had its soundtrack. Penned by songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the oh-so appropriately-titled “Wasn’t Born to Follow” by The Byrds is an easy-going psychedelic-country song about aimless wandering and the choice to do so. —Lars Gotrich
