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Troubadour: The Definitive Collection (1964-1976) (CD)

By: Donovan (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Troubadour: The Definitive Collection (1964-1976) (CD) Album By Donovan (Artist)
1   London Town - (previously unreleased)
2   Codine - (previously unreleased)
3   Catch The Wind
4   Universal Soldier
5   Colours
6   Sunshine Superman
7   Season Of The Witch
8   Trip, The
9   Guinevere
10   Breezes Of Patchulie
11   Museum - (previously unreleased)
12   Super Lungs - (previously unreleased)
13   Mellow Yellow
14   Writer In The Sun
15   Sand And Foam
16   Sunny South Kensington
17   Epistle To Dippy
18   There Is A Mountain
19   Wear Your Love Like Heaven
20   Oh Gosh
21   Tinker And The Crab, The
22   Poor Cow
 
DISC 2 for Troubadour: The Definitive Collection (1964-1976) (CD) Album By Donovan (Artist)
1   Hurdy Gurdy Man
2   Jennifer Juniper
3   Teen Angel
4   Lalena
5   To Susan On The West Coast Waiting
6   Atlantis
7   Barabajagal
8   Happiness Runs
9   Celia Of The Seals
10   Riki Tiki Tavi
11   Clara Clairvoyant
12   Roots Of Oak
13   Riki Tiki Tavi - (previously unreleased)
14   Maria Magenta
15   Cosmic Wheels
16   I Like You
17   Yellow Star
18   Rock And Roll Souljer
19   Quest, The
20   Age Of Treason - (previously unreleased)
21   What The Soul Desires - (previously unreleased)
22   Dark-Eyed Blue Jean Angel
 
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Review

Entertainment Weekly (9/11/92, p.90) - "...as a summary of a distinctive and often wonderful artist, this 44-cut [collection] is worth hearing..." - Rating: B-
Q (10/94, p.130) - 3 Stars - Good - "...judging only what's been did rather than what's been hid, this isn't a bad box after all..."
Musician (12/92, p.99) - "...Donovan's music remains among the most gorgeous and ornate of the psychedelic era..."

Title Note

TROUBADOUR is a collection of hits, demos and previously-unreleased tracks. Initial pressings came in a special "keeper box." As of October 1996 it is available in a standard double-CD jewel box.

Personnel includes: Donovan Leitch (vocals, guitar, harp, banjo, harmonica); Mike O'Neil (vocals, piano, keyboards); Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, Eric Ford (guitar); Shawn Phillips (sitar, bouzouki); London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic (strings); Tom Scott (recorder); Jack Emblou (accordion); Charlie Rose, Ronnie Ross (horns); David Foster (piano, synthesizer); Nicky Hopkins, David Paul Briggs (keyboards); John Paul Jones, Ron Wood, Clive Chaman, Brian Locking, Spike Healey, Bobby Ray, Allen Spenner (bass); Jim Keltner, John Bonham, Kenny Buttrey, Denny Seiweill, Cozy Powell, Tony Newman (drums); Madeline Bell, Suzi Quatro, Leslie Duncan, Graham Nash, Don & friends, Valerie Carrington, Jill Utting, Gaynor Stewart, Julie Forsythe, Leslie Ash, John McCartney, Lesley Fyson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ginger Holladay, Mary Holladay, Lea Jane Berinati, Florence Warner, Byron Warner (background vocals).

Producers includes: Donovan Leitch, Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Michael Peter Hayes, Geoff Stephens.

Includes liner notes by Brian Hogg and Derek Taylor.

Subtitled THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, 1964-1976, this two-disc 1992 compilation is just that. Starting with two 1964 demos, able but not definitive versions of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Codeine" and Tim Hardin's "London Town," TROUBADOUR quickly skips through Donovan's underrated folk-rock period--"Catch the Wind," "Colours," and Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier" are it--before hitting track six.

"Sunshine Superman," one of the most daffily inspired and silly pop songs of its time, ushered in Donovan's psychedelic magpie era, when his lighter-than-air visions were set to some of the most enchantingly twee pop tunes of the era. "Mellow Yellow," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Atlantis," and "Jennifer Juniper" are all here, and don't sound dated in the least. Some of the more earnest later material on Disc Two doesn't hold up as well, but mostly TROUBADOUR hits all the high points of Donovan's post-1968 career.

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