About the book:

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock is the second volume of the first comprehensive history of one of the greatest movements in rock music, drawing upon interviews with more than 100 musicians, producers, managers, and journalists involved in the music. Where its predecessor ( Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution) documented the birth and growth of folk-rock through mid-1966, its sequel, Eight Miles High, covers the branches and evolutions of folk-rock from mid-1966 to the end of the 1960s. Together, they form an epic history of the entire style as it evolved throughout the 1960s, following its growth chronologically from the streets of Greenwich Village at the dawn of the decade through the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The innovations of giants such as the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention, and Bob Dylan are covered, of course. But so are the contributions of lesser-known heroes, from Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, and Nick Drake to the labels, producers, session musicians, managers, and fans that helped made the music happen.

• Read excerpts from the book Eight Miles High
• Eight Miles High table of contents
• List of musicians, producers, managers, and promoters interviewed for Eight Miles High
• Transcripts of interviews with folk-rockers: a selection of conversations with folk-rock figures conducted in the course of writing Eight Miles High and Turn! Turn! Turn!, exclusive to this website.
• Links to web pages devoted to folk-rock musicians and folk-rock in general.
• Lists and descriptions of the author's favorite folk-rock recordings, both famous and obscure.
• A Folk-Rock Discography: Capsule reviews of the best and most important 1960s folk-rock albums
• The 25 Most Interesting Overlooked 1960s Folk-Rock LPs (Record Collector magazine feature, August 2005)
• Quotes About Eight Miles High
• Folk-Rock: An Overview
• The author's liner notes for numerous Collectors' Choice Music CD reissues, including several 1960s folk-rock albums

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