Laurel canyon 1960s

Laurel Canyon was the breeding ground for the confessional singer-songwriter sound made popular by leading lights Mitchell, Taylor, and King. It was the birthplace of the laid-back, uniquely Californian country-rock music pioneered by the likes of the Byrds and taken to unimaginable heights by the Eagles.

2401 Laurel Canyon Boulevard – Today it's a grassy field (after having burnt to the ground in 1981) but in the late 1960s it was the site of Frank Zappa

“A Canyon person grooves on nature. These people are not flower children and they’re not hippies. They’re Canyon people. The Canyon scene ... will be the big thing in 1968. You can trap your own food here, you can fish …” —Music promoter Kim Fowley, quoted on KNX News Radio,...

Pic Dawson, Eric Clapton. Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Gary & Annette Burden with daughter Amy & Cass Elliott in Mama's Laurel Canyon Gingerbread House back yard in the mid 1960s. ~~ Glenn Thornhill (FB) America in the 1960s.

Joni Mitchell looks out the window in her Laurel Canyon home, Los Angeles, 1970 (photo by Henry Diltz)

This blog entry is about Laurel Canyon. Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography’s map of Laurel Canyon, available on art prints and a variety of merchandise What’s now Los Angeles was first…

Miss Cynderella (Cynthia Cale-Binion), Miss Sandra (Sandra Leano), Miss Christine (Christine Frka) and Miss Pamela (Pamela Des Barres) of The GTOs. Photo for 'AUM' magazine, April 1969.

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