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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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of April 23 We’ve added a bunch of delicious new music to the station this week and we can’t tell you how excited we are by a new crop of Laurel Canyon-y tunes for you to wash over you like the aural pashmina it is: Heartache – Nicki Bluhm And […]
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New Tracks – Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of April 15 The taxes are filed, the refunds are spent, the weather is getting warmer…and what have we added to our rotation this week? Falling From The Sky – Calexico http://www.casadecalexico.com/news/ Typically more interested in creating atmospheric Americana sounds than pop hits, Calexico’s new “Edge of The Sun” splits the […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of April 8 Indie bands and rock-n-roll royalty all find their way on to our airwaves this week: Hanging On – Sky Smeed http://www.skysmeed.com/ “I love you I’m not kissing on your bank account” go the lyrics from this beautifully rendered love tome from Kansas-based indie rocker Sky Smeed. Comparisons to […]
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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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Welcome to LaurelCanyonRadio.com – Handcrafted Artisanal Harmonies From High in the Hills Of Los Angeles “Laurel Canyon Radio” is a 24/7 free-form Internet radio station focused on celebrating the harmony –rich, singer-songwriter Southern California sound first made famous in the late 1960s and early 1970’s and the current crop of emerging musicians carrying that sound forward today. Focusing on both […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio Week of March 19 For those bemoaning the lack of “good music” on the radio, you haven’t been listening to Laurel Canyon Radio. Everywhere we turn we find great talent, this week included. First, a big shout out to Knoxville singer-songwriter K. Adem who is slaving away on our new top-of-the-hour interstitial track…we’ll […]
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Thought you might like a little assisted Go-Pro tour through Laurel Canyon to see where the legacies, are, ummm, buried. Music courtesy of Warren Zevon, video by Brad Corlett. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9C2RCYhccUqT3VIYXd1QnJOQlE/view?usp=sharing
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Documentary on the Folk Rock scene in California from the 60’s to the 70’s.
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