Ballad of Easy Rider  is the eighth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in November 1969 on Columbia Records.  The album was named after the song “Ballad of Easy Rider”, which had been written by The Byrds’ guitarist and singer, Roger McGuinn (with help from Bob Dylan), as the theme song for the 1969 film, Easy Rider.  The association with Easy Rider heightened The Byrds’ public profile and resulted in Ballad of Easy Rider becoming the band’s highest charting album for two years in the U.S.  The album peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and #41 on the UK Albums Chart.  Upon release, Ballad of Easy Rider was met with mixed reviews but is today regarded as one of the band’s stronger albums from the latter half of their career.  (More from Wikipedia)