Warren Sellers has recently written a book called “The Journey of A Song 60’s and 70’s” and it features some insightful behind-the-scenes tidbits about some of the greatest songs of our generation, including “Woodstock” written by Joni Mitchell, and inspired by, not her being there, but by her watching it on TV because she had ostensibly committed to an […]
Read moreBack to the Garden WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2006 AT 12 P.M. BY STEFFIE NELSON 4 Roxy (and Troubadour) music: Stills, Young, Greg Reeves, Dallas Taylor and Nash rehearsing for Woodstock, 1969 (Photos by Henry Diltz) Money may not buy you love, but $2.4 million can buy you prime real estate on “Love Street” — as in the song Jim Morrison […]
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New Tracks – Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of October 27 We’ve let ourselves get caught up in this most Trumptastic of times, but that hasn’t dulled our enthusiasm, we just haven’t had time what with all the outrage. Here’s some new tracks we’ve added this week. “Tokyo” – Gerry Beckley We couldn’t resist this lovely throwback track from […]
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Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns 316pp, Fourth Estate, £14.99 The subtitle may sound like a specialist subject on Mastermind. But if you are looking for the ingredients traditionally required of a good rock’n’roll story, then Hotel California has got the lot. Diving deep into the mythology of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter […]
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Crosby, Stills & Nash’s The Acoustic Concert is mastered with a loud and full sound. Videotaped at a 1991 show in San Francisco that was done as a memorial to the group’s friend, Bill Graham, there is more here than meets the eye — indeed, what initially meets the eye is most unpromising, the decidedly overweight presence of David Crosby […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of September 11 It’s harmony September – with some great tracks and the discovery of an amazing woman who we think has the presence of Adele and the pipes of Aretha! “Go Back” – Darlingside Massachusetts-based ensemble whose electic blend of 60s folk, clever wry wit, classical arrangements, soaring harmonies and […]
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March 25, 2015 by Jon Patrick Laurel Canyon Daze The epic tales of Laurel Canyon’s heyday continues to linger like the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air… It’s here that the SoCal sound was born out of an era of relaxed morals, folks expanding their mental horizons (drugs), and a wave of eclectic misfits coming from all […]
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For those who are too jaded…here’s a brief history of the Snob Dictionary Guide To Laurel Canyon.
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