Trailer for new documentary about the 60s-70s Laurel Canyon music scene featuring Tom Petty, Cat Power, Jackson Browne, Norah Jones

David Pescovitz 10:49 am Thu Apr 4, 2019

In the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon neighborhood was flowing with sex, drugs, and folk-rock and roll. Joni Mitchell, the Byrds, Jackson Brown, Carole King, the Mamas & The Papas, and countless other musicians made the scene or had homes in the hills. Echo in the Canyon is a new documentary about that magical moment and the influential sound that emerged. The trip back in time to this "legendary paradise, as Tom Petty called it, was directed by Andrew Slater with Jakob Dylan as executive producer.

"The best test of songwriting is that it transcends its moment in time," Dylan said in a statement. "And there is no doubt that the songs we explore in this film are as powerful today as they were in 1965."

Echo in the Canyon will see a national release in June.

(Rolling Stone)

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