The 'West Coast' Sound
May 3rd 2011 00:20
From the Beach Boys, The Mamas and Papas, The Byrds through to The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers and Jackson Browne - there's been a multitude of musicians who have been labeled as having the "California Sound".
In reality of course California has a grand mythology and is so diverse and eclectic for one state - that there is no shortage of stories to be told.
Yet for all the wide variety of people, creeds, colors - when people talk about the California sound, they always talk about the pop music.
Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac even Neil Young and Warren Zevon all had it - and when you hear it - you know immediately the 'sound' to which I'm referring.
Regardless of whether someone who's written a love song or a road tune - you feel it.
I may be landlocked in an era which is fast becoming the day before yesterday - but I'm comfortable in that skin.
Perhaps the East Coast born and raised John Phillips knew a good thing when he found the land of the Endless Summer...
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