California Dreaming: the Cream of La’s Seventies Rock
California Dreaming: the Cream of La’s Seventies Rock
Customer Review: Just great California music
If you remember the Califormia Seventies as a blur of fantastic music, but you don’t seem to have any on your system, or your LP’s are unplayable, like mine - buy this! I don’t know why it’s a fantastic mix - even those I hadn’t heard before - but it just is.
Customer Review: Highway 1 - Revisited
Concur fully with the previous review by Country Grumpkin (what a wonderful pseudonym) that this excellent compilation represents perfect accompaniment for a long drive. Where better for that than Highway 1, which runs down the West Coast of California from the North in San Francisco, through Monterey and Carmel, past Big Sur and Saint Simeon on South towards Laurel Canyon and L.A.
What particularly appeals about this offering, is the attention paid by the compiler to linking the sequence of tracks by some kind of association to what precedes and that which follows. For example, we have Buffalo Springfield followed by Stephen Stills and then Crazy Horse. Later, there is Jackson Browne followed by The Eagles, The Flying Burrito Brothers by Gram Parsons and finally Canned Heat by The Grateful Dead, both of whom appeared at The Woodstock Festival. Consequently, this set has very good continuity, it really flows from one track to the next like a gently flowing tide. I would like to endorse the inclusion of the following tracks, not mentioned in the previous review: Love`s - Alone again or (From the majestic “Forever changes” Album), Joni Mitchell`s - Blue (From the Album of the same title) Fleetwood Mac`s - Don`t stop ( From their platinum disc “Rumours”) and last but not least two singles Jo Jo Gunne`s fine “Run, Run ,Run” and America`s beautiful “Horse with no name”.
However, perhaps the biggest surprise is the exclusion of the Title Song itself “California Dreaming”, since in essence that song would carry this collection forward from The Long Hot Summer thru The Fall and into Winter, when the song was composed by John Phillips in New York City. Thus making this a good all year round choice, especially when driving. Have a good trip.
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