Fairytale
Released: Oct 22, 1965
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Released: Oct 22, 1965
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Donovan's second album found the Scottish folkie in possession of his own voice, a style of earnest, occasionally mystical musings indebted neither to Woody Guthrie nor Bob Dylan. True, Fairytale's...
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The Real Donovan
Released: September 1966
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Released: September 1966
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Donovan left Hickory Records for Epic Records in a messy contractual battle in 1966, and Hickory, which retained his folk-based 1965 catalog, retaliated by releasing a series of compilations to...
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For Little Ones
Released: December 1967
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Released: December 1967
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The second American LP released from the British two-record set A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, For Little Ones is almost wholly an acoustic-guitar work, with only a few touches of brushing...
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Mellow Yellow
Released: January 1967
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Released: January 1967
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Mellow Yellow is actually more diverse in its sounds than Sunshine Superman, drawing on some of the same era's better follow-up material but also reaching back somewhat further for repertory. It...
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Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Released: December 1967
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Released: December 1967
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Separately released in the U.S. as the pop record from 1967's double-LP A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, Wear Your Love Like Heaven stands on its own as one of the brightest, most pleasant works...
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A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
Released: December 1967
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Released: December 1967
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Rock music's first two-LP box set has been reissued on one CD. Even better, enough time has passed that the music has overcome its original shortcomings and now stands out as a prime artifact of...
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Hurdy Gurdy Man
Released: October 1968
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Released: October 1968
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Having Mickie Most as producer could be a double-edged sword. On The Hurdy Gurdy Man, his over-ambitious nature and scattershot production sense occasionally sabotaged Donovan's songs rather than...
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The Best of Donovan
Released: October 1969
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Released: October 1969
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Hickory's third repackaging of its 1965 acoustic Donovan material, with another misleading psychedelic cover, was intended to compete with Epic's Greatest Hits album of the same year. Anyone who...
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Open Road
Released: 1970
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Released: 1970
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Although it was a disappointing seller and signaled the start of Donovan's commercial decline, Open Road could have been a new beginning for the singer. Stripping down to a Celtic rock format that...
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