In a time when music was free and spirited, Laurel Canyon was the place stars called home. Entire bands called Laurel Canyon home. A few residents included: the Eagles, the Byrds, Crosby, Stills, and Nash and a few solo’s like Joni Mitchell and Jim Morrison hung out there as well.
In a new book, Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood, author Michael Walker tells of a time when these rock stars hung out, shopped, and wrote some of the most inspiring music known today.
Walker has his theory as to why so many musicians called this place home:
“Musicians need to breathe the same air,” he says. “And these were some of the best musicians of their generation, sort of by luck and happenstance jammed into this beautiful, leafy, little neighborhood.”
This is one book soon to be in my collection.