Side A
Artist	Song
Arlo Guthrie	Coming Into Los Angeles (abridged)
The Beatles	Blue Jay Way
John Mayall	Medicine Man
The Byrds	Eight Miles High
Spirit	Prelude-Nothing To Hide (abridged)(F. Zappa into from Plastic People)
The Byrds	Triad
John Mayall	Walking On Sunset
Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth (F. Zappa intro from Plastic People)
The Byrds	Draft Morning
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Almost Cut My Hair
Spirit	Aren't You Glad
Neil Young	Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
The Doors	Love Street (Mick Taylor intro from The Bear)
Joni Mitchell	Ladies Of The Canyon
John Mayall	Laurel Canyon Home
The Lovin' Spoonful	What A Day For A Daydream
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Guinnevere
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Our House
Joni Mitchell	Willy
Neil Young	After The Gold Rush
Three Dog Night	Out In The Country
Carole King	So Far Away
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Graham Nash	Chicago
Joni Mitchell	For Free
David Crosby	Tamalpais High
The Byrds	Everybody's Been Burned
Graham Nash	Wounded Bird
Carole King	It's Too Late
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Deja Vu
Spirit	Life Has Just Begun
Buffalo Springfield	Rock and Roll Woman
Joni Mitchell	California
Stephen Stills	Go Back Home
The Mamas & The Papas	California Dreamin'
David Crosby	Music Is Love
Neil Young	Birds
Joni Mitchell	Both Sides Now
Graham Nash	Sleep Song
The Byrds	Have You Seen Her Face
Spirit	It Shall Be
D. Crosby & G. Nash	Southbound Train
Joni Mitchell	Blue
Graham Nash	I Used To Be A King
The Beach Boys	This Whole World

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MUSIC FROM THE CANYONS

Dedicated to my friends Jane, Dave, and Sam - denizens of the canyons.

This is an ode to my hometown, Los Angeles, a place I have not lived in for over 20 years. I have chosen a particular slant to this mix. You will see that it is most definitely a period piece, made up of songs that most of you might own, or at least have heard a lot. I suppose the Mayall tracks may be an exception to that.
The period is approximately 1966 through 1971, a time of Viet Nam, Woodstock, Nixon, the Chicago Seven, and an awful lot of good music coming out of LA. The particular theme I want to focus on is the music by musicians living or hanging out in the canyons north/northwest of Sunset Blvd. There are many nooks and crannies hidden off the main canyon roads - Laurel, Cold Water, Beverly Glen - that give one a feeling of hillside privacy within a few minutes of the Sunset Strip. It was a discussion of this same late 60's canyon scene that led the director of the Laurel Canyon movie to slide the time frame 30 years forward, and start filming. Maybe she'll want to trade a couple of movie tix for my mix, who knows.

The image of staying in a little wooden bungalow nestled under eucalyptus trees and palm trees, with the scent of lilac wafting through the garden while picking at a guitar or piano, is an appealing one to me.
1) We start off with Arlo Guthrie bringing us in to Los Angeles, from London, with a couple of keys. This naturally leads us to.
2) The Beatles. In 1967 George (and others?) was waiting for friends at a house on Blue Jay Way, a little out-of-the-way street between Laurel and Coldwater Canyons, minutes north of Sunset. He sat at an organ there and started the song. Maybe he was waiting for the same medicine man spoken of by.
3) John Mayall. In 1968 he took a 3-week vacation to Los Angeles, staying at a house in Laurel Canyon. He wrote a bunch of songs about his vacation, and recorded Blues From Laurel Canyon when he returned to London. And when the man showed up he could take you, George, and.
4)The Byrds eight miles high. David Crosby still in the band, living at one point in Laurel Canyon, prior to upgrading west to swanker Beverly Glen Canyon. It is at his pad in Laurel Canyon that Mama Cass Elliott brought Hollie Graham Nash for an introduction in 1967. But further west, in more remote Topanga Canyon, we have.
5) Spirit sharing a house, rehearsing most every day. A wonderful band that captures the LA vibe at least as well as anybody. One day they traipsed up to neighbor Neil Young's hill top 3 story shack to ask if they could get David Briggs to produce their upcoming Sardonicus album
6) The Byrds. Triad is a Crosby song, unused on the original album, but included on the expanded reissue. Maybe better known thanks to the Jefferson Airplane. I suppose Crosby attracted the women, and apparently one wasn't enough. Written before he met Joni Mitchell in Florida, but it seems to aptly represent the G. Nash, Mitchell, Crosby nexus. A nice statement from the free-loving 60's.
7) Back to John Mayall, taking a stroll on Sunset. What would a vacation to LA be without that? But in 1968 it wasn't always a serene street scene, inspiring Stephen Stills of.
8) Buffalo Springfield to pen For What It's Worth. I added a bit from Frank Zappa's Plastic People as an introduction referring to the same street altercation in 1967. It seems that local folks were unhappy at the prospect of hangout Pandora's Box being evicted from its site. Crowds in the street, some breaking of glass, and some overzealous police made for the troubles referred to in their songs. The Springfield shared a house for a time in Laurel Canyon. And Zappa was a Laurel Canyon resident as well.
9) The Byrds reappear, making a statement about war and the draft. Around this time Roger McGuinn and one other B

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