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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unterberger, Richie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk-rock music--History and criticism.

Folk-rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (706 pages)

Edition:

Updated ebook edition.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, California] : [Richie Unterberger], 2015.

Summary:

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock is the sequel to Turn! Turn! Turn!: The 1960s Folk-Rock Revolution, which documented the birth and heyday of folk-rock in the 1960s. Detailing folk-rock from mid-1966 to the end of the 1960s, Eight Miles High portrays the mutation of folk-rock into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; the maturation of folk-rock composers in the birth of the singer-songwriter movement; the reemergence of Bob Dylan and the inception of country-rock; the rise of folk-rock's first supergroup from the ashes of the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield; the origination of a truly British form of folk-rock; and the growth of the live folk-to-rock music festival, from Newport to Woodstock. Based on first-hand interviews with folk-rock figures such as Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Judy Collins, and more than 100 others, Eight Miles High and its prequel Turn! Turn! Turn! have been updated from the original print books for their 2015 ebook versions. Turn! Turn! Turn! and Eight Miles High have also been combined into one ebook, Jingle Jangle Morning: Folk-Rock in the 1960s, which adds a bonus mini-book detailing the nearly 200 tracks that would be compiled into the author's ideal 1960s folk-rock box set.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Story So Far: Dramatis Personae

Prologue: Fifth Dimension

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

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

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

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

Chapter 5: The New Dylan and Country-Rock

Chapter 6: Folk-Rock Superstars and Supergroups

Chapter 7: Liege &amp

Lief : A Truly British Folk-Rock

Chapter 8: From Newport to Woodstock

Epilogue: Folk-Rock's Legacy

Discography

Interviewees

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2015).

ISBN:

0-9961274-0-2

OCLC:

908073213