In 1968 John Mayall spent three weeks in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. He stayed with Frank Zappa, and their neighbors included ...

“What is up in Laurel Canyon/ The seat of the beat,” sang Van Dyke Parks on his “Song Cycle” album in 1968. By then, the rustic, windy thoroughfare that runs through the Hollywood Hills connecting ...

In April 1970 Joni Mitchell released her third record, Ladies Of The Canyon, an ode to the denizens of the neighborhood she called home, Laurel Canyon, a mountainous paradise nestled in the purgatory ...