Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock
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Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

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Eight Miles High documents the evolution of the folk-rock movement from mid-1966 through the end of the decade. This much-anticipated sequel to Turn Turn Turn (00330946) - the acclaimed history of folk-rock's early years - portrays the mutation of the genre into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; the maturation of folk-rock composers ...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published May 15th 2003 by Backbeat Books (first published May 2003)
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This was damn tasty. Unterberger's detail-rich prose occupies a space between the academic and the conversational.
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Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock (Kindle Edition)
Richie Unterberger's book "The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film" details the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not release, as well as musical footage of the group that hasn't been made commercially available. His other books include "Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll," the two-volume 1960s folk-rock history "Turn! Turn! Turn!"/"Eight M...more
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