QUESTION:

Which pop/folk-rock band made their debut at the Grand Ole Opry on March 15, 1968 and were booed and heckled with shouts of “Tweet, tweet,” and “Get a haircut”?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

The Byrds (hence the “tweet, tweet” comments] who faced animosity as “hippie longhairs” from the Opry audience.  They later released “Sweethearts of the Rodeo,” widely regarded as the first album marketed as “country rock.”