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- Date Released: January 1, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: Plaza Mayor Company, Ltd. / The Orchard
High psychedelia, Arthurian folk song and Buddhistic rumination from one of pop's key innovators
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We Say...
Donovan's 1966 breakthrough collaboration with producer Mickey Most links the British folk tradition to late '60s high psychedelia while marking one of the more important pop mutations of its era. On it, Donovan notes immodestly in his autobiography, "I 'fused' all world 'art forms' into a brotherhood and sisterhood of music." Even better, Donovan took the tropes of Arthurian folk song (as heard in "Guinevere") and updated them with star-struck references to the princes and princesses of the new international pop demimonde. Hence the Jefferson Airplane shout-out in "Fat Angel" (i.e., "Mama" Cass Elliot) and the images of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan chilling in the Lewis Carroll-like lyrics of "The Trip."
The Beatles were listening to Sunshine Superman as they recorded Sgt. Pepper's, and they definitely picked up the sitar that wends its way through the title track and other compelling raga-folk incantations such as "Three King Fishers" and "Ferris Wheel." Phantasmagoric references to seagulls, silver bicycles and jingle-jangle jesters pop up repeatedly, as in Donovan's take on the newly developing jazz-folk idiom, "Bert's Blues" (dedicated to guitarist Bert Jantsch but even more reminiscent of Davey Graham). As sunny as the album might seem to be, its most influential track turned out to be "Season of the Witch," a dark and frequently covered Buddhistic rumination on medieval archetypes that foretold bad trips yet to come.
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Lady Of The Stars |
4:38 |
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| 02. | |
I Love You Baby |
3:31 |
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| 03. | |
Bye Bye Girl |
3:26 |
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| 04. | |
Every Reason |
3:06 |
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| 05. | |
Season Of The Witch |
5:27 |
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| 06. | |
For Every Boy There Is A Girl |
4:42 |
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| 07. | |
Local Boy Chops Wood |
3:35 |
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| 08. | |
Sunshine Superman |
4:07 |
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| 09. | |
Living For The Lovelight In Your Eyes |
3:49 |
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| 10. | |
Till I See You Again |
3:15 |
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10 Total Tracks, 39:36 Total Length
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