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 […]
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Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of May 16 Spring is upon us and so is a lot of great music from artists both new and familiar: “Til It Fades” – Rogue + Jaye While some of the press clippings compare Rogue + Jaye to a young Buckingham and Nicks, Rolling Stones effuses over the merger of Nathan […]
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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The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know How Glenn Frey’s drug dealer, Don Henley’s king-size mattress and other behind-the-scenes elements played into band’s dark 1976 masterpiece The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know By Jordan Runtagh December 8, 2016 By the second half the Seventies, the Eagles‘ “Peaceful Easy Feeling” seemed like a distant memory, a […]
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Meet Rock’s Historian: The Man Who Captured the ‘60s on film 05/20/2016 03:51 pm ET (Neil Young at his La Honda barn, circa 1969. Credit: Henry Diltz.) If I had a time machine, I’d head for Laurel Canyon in the late 1960s. At the time, Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon was a world unto itself — a desert collective, bursting with […]
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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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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – September 14, 2016 A chilly breeze blows through our fair city today and although it probably hardly means the end of the summer here in LA, it’s kind of a nice respite from our typical hot ass September, so we thought we’ d fill you up on a diet of comfort songs to […]
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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 July 14 “Let Me Go” – Pig Pen Theatre Company These groovy fellas (they’re a theatre company AND a band) have recently been featured with the Mumfords on the Gentlemen of the Road Tour and will make their screen debut in the summer Meryl Streep-as-rocker-chick flick […]
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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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