I remember listening joyously to this record in our basement the year it came out. I'm definitely being a wee bit selfish by posting it so I can hear too. Stay with me or skip away and play another day.
Young as I was, Donovan always soothed me. I waited for his music to come round on the old radio each night in the dark, watching out for sleep to come too.
This album, "Open Road" was a departure, I thought."Celtic Rock" was so gutteral; it reminded me of the underground dwellers in "The Lord of the Rings," one of my favorite books of any time.
[Technical Warning: it gets frantic in an early 70's way toward the 2 minute mark, so you have the choice to pause it, of course. That's what I do because it hurts my head too much, but I still love the beginning, I think because of the two kinds of voices - the contrast betwen bass and lilt... However, it does slow down again at the 3 minute mark, if that's any consolation or motivation to keep on going.]
I admit to being a fantasy geek... but there are many ways to represent reality, especially when we don't always recognize it as itself under our noses.
A coin toss of reality quotes:Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein