Eight miles high : folk-rock's flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock / by Richie Unterberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unterberger, Richie, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk-rock music--History and criticism.

Folk-rock music.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

8 miles high

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the US and Canada by Publisher's Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the US and Canada by Hal Leonard, [2003]

Summary:

Eight Miles High documents the evolution of the folk-rock movement from mid-1966 through the end of the decade. This much-anticipated sequel to Turn! Turn! Turn!(00330946) - the acclaimed history of folk-rock's early years - portrays the mutation of the genre into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; the maturation of folk-rock composers in the singer-songwriter movement; the re-emergence of Bob Dylan and the creation of country-rock; the rise of folk-rock's first supergroup, CSNandY; the origination of British folk-rock; and the growing importance of major festivals from Newport to Woodstock. Based on firsthand interviews with such folk-rock visionaries as: Jorma Kaukonen, Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Judy Collins, Jim Messina, Dan Hicks and dozens of others.

Contents:

Prologue: Fifth Dimension 1

1 Folk-Rock to Acid Rock: The San Francisco Sound 11

2 Forever Changes: Folk-Rock Psychedelicized, from Sunset Strip to Outer Space 39

3 Folk-Rock Grows Up: The Singer-Songwriters 77

4 In Thyme: British Folk-Rock Finds Its Voice 133

5 The New Dylan and Country-Rock 171

6 Folk-Rock Superstars and Supergroups 203

7 Liege & Lief: A Truly British Folk-Rock 233

8 Folk-Rock from Newport to Woodstock 265

Epilogue: Folk-Rock's Legacy 289.

Notes:

Includes discography (pages 305-324), bibliographical references (pages 329-332), and index.

ISBN:

0879307439

OCLC:

51445570