Finally--a decent remastering of one of my favorite Donovan songs, "Barabajagal," appears on the recent compilation Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan. The version of the song on Troubador was mixed too low, and all the bite from Jeff Beck's guitar was missing. What a session: Beck on guitar, Ron Wood on bass (and well before terminal jackassery set in, courtesy of Keith and Mick), Nicky Hopkins on piano (did he ever play on a bad song?), and, the booklet tells me, Suzi Quatro on backup vocals. Wow.
I had liked some of Mr. Leitch's softer stuff in the 1960s (as proud owner of From a Flower to A Garden--"Wear Your Love like Heaven" indeed), but I always was much more immediately attracted to his harder-edged stuff--"Epistle to Dippy," and, of course. "Hurdy Gurdy Man," with all the instrumentalists from Led Zeppelin backing him up. And then there's "Atlantis," which I have always received a guily pleasure from, even when Martin Scorsese almost ruined it by having it play underneath the first of the several murder attempts on Billy Bats in Goodfellas. (By the way, Martin, let's give "Gimme Shelter" a rest for a picture or two--oh, you just directed the latest Stones concert flick? Ah, okay...)
"Love is Hot--Truth is Molten." Yeah.
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