Reception
Although There Is a Season was generally well received critically, a number of reviews expressed disappointment over the relatively small number of previously unreleased tracks included in the set. Joe Tangari, writing for Pitchfork Media, praised the compilation's well chosen track listing but expressed confusion as to who the box set was aimed at, since most hardcore fans would already own the majority of its contents. Alexis Petridis was also unenthusiastic about the contents of the set in his review for The Guardian: "Bearing only five previously unreleased tracks - all live, all with a distinct air of "so what?" - There Is a Season smacks less of curating an important artist's legacy than of record company desperation at the lucrative back-catalogue well running dry." This opinion was echoed by Richie Unterberger, who commented on the Allmusic website "the point of putting out another four-CD Byrds box set about 15 years later wasn't all that clear, unless it was a mercenary exercise to get more mileage out of the band's durable catalog." Michael Franco's review for the PopMatters website was more upbeat and described the box set as "a must-have for any serious collector of music" and "the definitive collection of The Byrds."
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