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Bookmark or Share- Laurel Canyon – Frank Zappa, The Byrds, Jim Morrison, Joni MitchellIn the 1960s, Laurel Canyon became famous as home to many of L.A.’s top rock musicians and bands, including The Byrds, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, the Buffalo Springfield and Love.
- Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban EcosystemLaurel Canyon, Los Angeles, was a nexus of counterculture activity in the 60s. Now its little mountain cottages are exorbitant. Image © Trekandshoot | Shutterstock
- Paradise Found: Laurel Canyon and the Flowering of an American DreamLaurel 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.
- Canyon History - Laurel Canyon AssociationWith a stage set by geology, topography and climate, successive waves of inhabitants have shaped and reshaped the community we know as Laurel Canyon. The road to Lookout Mountain in the early 1900's.
- An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca - Vanity FairBut none of the legends of the Laurel Canyon scene that flowered in L.A. in the late 60s and early 70s—Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt, and others—remember it quite the same way.
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