Excerpts from Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution

The excerpts below, running a few thousands words each, are but a small sample of the breadth of coverage in Turn! Turn! Turn!. Click beneath, though, to read about some pivotal people, places, and movements within the folk-rock movement in the last half of the 1960s:

"Mr. Tambourine Man": The year-long journey of folk-rock's defining song, from Bob Dylan's typewriter to the Byrds' hit recording in the studio

The Rise of Donovan: Donovan shakes off all Dylan imitator tags for good and helps usher in psychedelia in 1966 with his first full-out venture into electric folk-rock, Sunshine Superman

The Roots of the Lovin' Spoonful and the Mamas & the Papas: John Sebastian, Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty, Zal Yanovsky, Tim Hardin, and others lead the first generation of East Coast folk-rockers into electric music in 1964
 

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