Where The Creatures Meet: Harmony and Discord in Laurel Canyon Written by Stephen Deusner November 18th, 2014 at 1:56 pm In April 1970 Joni Mitchell released her third record, Ladies Of The Canyon, an ode to the denizens of the neighborhood she called home, Laurel Canyon, a mountainous paradise nestled in the purgatory of Los Angeles. The gentle title track […]
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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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Much has been made of the Smothers Brothers like banter of the Milk Carton Kids, but I would prefer to let the music speak for itself.
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“Hotel California” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977 and peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it number 19 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. The […]
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Great video from Rolling Stone’s “Mastering The Craft” video. The origin story of the Black Keys. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/black-keys-rs-films-mastering-the-craft-20150513
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By MessyNessy 21ST APR, 2015 In a sleepy fishing village on the island of Crete, where Joni Mitchell had found herself a nomadic home inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff, she sang her folk songs, “under a starry dome…beneath the Matala Moon.” It was the 1960s and a community of backpacking hippies had settled in Matala, a remote corner […]
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Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is the folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stillsand Graham Nash. They are known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture. All four members […]
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Gene Parsons was born on September 4, 1944 on his family’s farm in Morongo Valley in the Mojave Desert, California. His professional musical career began when he joined up with guitarist and Fiddle player Gib Guilbeauin the duo Guilbeau & Parsons. Later the duo was joined by Clarence White, former guitarist with the Kentucky Colonels, and bassist Wayne Moore to form the […]
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Photo credit: Ray_Lamontagne3.jpg: Tammy Lo from New York, NY derivative work: TheCuriousGnome (talk) – Ray_Lamontagne3.jpg Raymond “Ray” Charles Jack LaMontagne (/lɑːmɒnˈteɪn/; born June 18, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. LaMontagne has released five studio albums, Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain, God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise and Supernova. He was born in New Hampshire […]
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One of the most important bands in folk-rock history is blowing through town next Saturday in San Juan Capistrano and Sunday in Beverly Hills! America is an American rock band, formed in 1970 by multi-instrumentalists Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, andGerry Beckley. The trio first met in London, where they began performing live. America achieved significant popularity in the 1970s, and […]
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