 or  iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Pop Released: Sep 17, 2010
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View More By Donovan. Customer Reviewsthis is the best of Donovan (5 stars)For whatever reasons, this album was my introduction to Donovan, probably within a year or two of its original release. I doubt if I ever acquired more than one more of his records, because everything I heard after this felt overproduced, overmanaged, overwrought. I played this single record so often some of these songs still arrive unbidden - but welcome - in my head over 40 years later, usually at a moment of random wholeness. The big hits BiographyBorn: May 10, 1946 in Glasgow, ScotlandGenre: Rock Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential...
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