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A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

Donovan

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Album Review

Rock music's first two-LP box set, A Gift from a Flower to a Garden overcomes its original shortcomings and stands out as a prime artifact of the flower-power era that produced it. The music still seems a bit fey, and overall more spacy than the average Moody Blues album of this era, but the sheer range of subjects and influences make this a surprisingly rewarding work. Essentially two albums recorded simultaneously in the summer of 1967, the electric tracks include Jack Bruce among the session players. The acoustic tracks represent an attempt by Donovan to get back to his old sound and depart from the heavily electric singles ("Sunshine Superman," etc.) and albums he'd been doing — it is folkier and bluesier (in an English folk sense) than much of his recent work.

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Undiscovered Gem

This is a lovely album full of melody , Donovan quirkiness and full on hippy idealism.A good vibe album basically in two parts the hazy jazz stylings on the first side and the folky homespun songs on side two.Donovan has more recently had a bit of a renaissance and rightly so.An underated songwriter certainly in the uk.A great summer soundtrack .It has some lovely flute playing from woodwind genius Harold Mcnair.Listen and you'll Luv it!

Biography

Born: 10 May 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential...
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