Alison Ellwood’s new two-part docuseries revisits the history of Laurel Canyon, a place 'whose significance to the era’s music scene can’t be overstated'
As subjects go, the quaint hippie hood of Laurel Canyon is the gift that keeps on giving—much like the STIs traded freely among its inhabitants. In the half century that has passed since its peak, scads of books, television programs, andNow Epix is premiering a new documentary on the subject: director Alison Ellwood’s new two-part docuseries, that premiered May 31.
Ellwood uses audio-only interviews in lieu of on-camera shots of the musicians in the present day, a remarkable way of preserving this atmosphere without intruding on it. The moodgives us is a big, dreamy, horny one, not entirely unlike the one we all seem to be pining for today—whether we realize it or not.
This is where Neil Young moved to join Richie Furay’s band, Buffalo Springfield, on lead guitar with Stephen Stills, then left to form Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, then decided to go solo. Where Love—with its two black members, Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols—would be barred from touring the south, and struggle to match the success of peers like the Doors.It’s where David Crosby would be kicked out of the Byrds, but first harmonize with Stills and Nash .
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