The Essential Donovan

Review

(Epic/Legacy)
Release Date: 03/30/2004 12:00

Briefly — and absurdly — regarded as the U.K.’s Bob Dylan, the genteel Scotsman was simply a gifted craftsman of bubblegum hippie pop. Among the confections: the painfully cute “Mellow Yellow,” “There Is a Mountain” (later a source of the Allmans’ “Mountain Jam”) and the creepy “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” featuring future Led Zeppelin stars Jimmy Page and John Bonham.

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