Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Changes	Donovan	2:55	$0.99
2.	Song for John	Donovan	2:17	$0.99
3.	Curry Land	Donovan	4:24	$0.99
4.	Joe Bean's Theme	Donovan	2:52	$0.99
5.	People Used To	Donovan	3:51	$0.99
6.	Celtic Rock	Donovan	3:35	$0.99
7.	Riki Tiki Tavi	Donovan	2:55	$0.99
8.	Clara Clairvoyant	Donovan	2:49	$0.99
9.	Roots of Oak	Donovan	4:53	$0.99
10.	Season of Farewell	Donovan	3:25	$0.99
11.	Poke At the Pope	Donovan	2:46	$0.99
12.	New Year's Resolution	Donovan	5:09	$0.99

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Our Review

Aligning himself so closely to the psychedelia of the late ‘60s, Donovan ran into commercial difficulties as a new decade began. Released in 1970, Open Road is a very good Donovan album at a time when people had started to look elsewhere and his record label was not perfectly aligned with his star. How else to explain the lack of interest in such solid material? The album begins with a tougher British blues underlying “Changes,” but “Song for John” and the modest hit “Riki Tiki Tavi” are prime Donovan. The beautiful psychedelia revisited of the piano-mad “Celtic Rock” set the template for Led Zeppelin’s folk excursions where rock is very much part of the British folk equation. “Clara Clairvoyant” slinks with a sexy funk that leads to a scream. “Roots of Oak” spooks out with a psych-folk groove from the not-so-distant past. ”Poke At the Pope” simply rocks like Donovan never had before. Donovan wouldn’t be much of a commercial force in the ‘70s, but his legacy was intact for future generations.

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Customer Reviews

Open Songwriting (5 stars)
This album is one of Donovan's best. Most people who I've played it to are pleasantly surprised to hear this version of Donovan. Even fans of his sixties radio hits are generally unfamiliar with this material. It's too bad; this surely contains some of his best compositions. If you like good folk, celtic, or rock, you'll love this album.

A lost gem. Deserves to be much better known (5 stars)
Many people didn't know it, but Donovan did not get stuck in the psychedelic late 60's. The entertainment media- record companies and radio programmers- chose to stick him there. Always moving on, looking for the next thing, so ready to forget. As Stackridge sang: "Here I lie, dashed to the ground. Thrown by the hands that applauded my sound." So Donovan was dismissed as hippy-triipy and yesterday's news- while all the while he w

Biography

Born: May 10, 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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	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Hurdy Gurdy Man	Hurdy Gurdy Man	3:13	$1.29
2.	Season of the Witch	Sunshine Superman	4:53	$1.29
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4.	Mellow Yellow	Super Hits	3:38	$1.29
5.	Atlantis	Barabajagal	5:02	$0.99
6.	Sunshine Superman	Sunshine Superman	3:15	$1.29
7.	Happiness Runs	Barabajagal	3:24	$0.99
8.	Catch the Wind	Summer Day Reflection Songs	2:54	$1.29
9.	Season of the Witch	The Wackness (Music from th..	4:54	$1.29
10.	Colours	Fairytale	2:44	$1.29

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