Always a strong performer when it came to singles, Donovan was gifted with this near-perfect encapsulation from EMI (which only scrimps on the liner notes and sound)....
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Donovan's Sunshine Superman appeared in two different versions, one in America and another -- slightly later owing to the need of the artist to disentangle himself from his...
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Beat Cafe is Donovan's first record in nine years. His last, the Rick Rubin-produced Sutras was issued in 1993 and was hopelessly misunderstood -- especially coming as it...
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In the absence of a more comprehensive package, The Early Years does an adequate job of presenting Donovan's "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan" period, focusing mainly on his...
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Not the collection of studio hits one might expect, Artful Records' The Very Best of Donovan finds the cosmic troubadour performing solo and acoustic before a rapturous and...
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Intercontinental's Golden Hits is a budget-priced collection of re-recordings of such hits as "Lady of the Stars," "Season of the Witch" and "Sunshine Superman." ~ Stephen...
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A surprisingly good collection--Rick Rubin knew what he was doing here--this can't quite equal Donovan's greatest stuff, if only for contextual reasons. Still: better than...
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Like Johnny Cash before him, Donovan was selected by producer Rick Rubin as a childhood hero he would like to restore to glory. With Rubin's encouragement and production,...
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This budget-minded compilation is a mixed bag. Chances are, Donovan enthusiasts already have these ten tracks on any number of other anthologies and the casual listener is...
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Early Donovan: dry, good, well-played and traditional. Featuring his original "Universal Soldier" and "Colours" as well as what may be, in retrospect, the single best-named...
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Donovan's second album found the Scottish folkie in possession of his own voice, a style of earnest, occasionally mystical musings indebted neither to Woody Guthrie nor Bob...
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Epic/Legacy's 1999 reissue of Greatest Hits improves on the original 1969 collection in a number of ways. First of all, the original Hickory versions of "Catch the Wind" and...
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We've all wanted to write a song called "The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow," but only Donovan was man enough to do it! Heard here: Jimmy Page playing, "Jennifer Juniper," and...
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Having Mickie Most as producer could be a double-edged sword. On The Hurdy Gurdy Man, his over-ambitious nature and scattershot production sense occasionally sabotaged...
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Holy flashback! A dynamite collection of Donovan's classiest tunes, including the groovy title track, "Fat Angel"--covered later by the name-dropped Jefferson Airplane--and...
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Paced by the title track, one of Donovan's best singles, 1966's Sunshine Superman heralded the coming psychedelic age with a new world/old world bent: several ambitious...
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Fresh stage recordings of Donovan's '60s hits, well-produced and arranged, and laced with a certain amount of humor from the passage of time and the druggy sensibilities...
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While by no means a complete retrospective, this two-disc compilation contains a healthy sampling from Donovan's first dozen years as a formidable musical figure. His...
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Originally issued in a distinctive 2-LP boxed set, this still fab-sounding disc contains Donovan's all-time greatest hit--"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"--and much, much more....
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Rock music's first two-LP box set has been reissued on one CD. Even better, enough time has passed that the music has overcome its original shortcomings and now stands out...
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Barabajagal 1/1/1968, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Featuring the man backed by no less than the Jeff Beck Group on two tracks; two quintessential Donovan tunes in "I Love My Shirt" and "Atlantis"; and the extremely-strange...
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Donovan was in a tremendously creative phase during the latter part of 1968, owing to both a tour of the United States (which yielded a live album) and the chemical and...
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This stateside title is the equivalent of the U.K. release What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid (1965) and comes from a cache of nearly three dozen tracks that the young...
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Donovan was reunited with his old producer, Mickie Most, and his old record company head, Clive Davis, for this label debut, which has a tight, sharp, punkish edge to it,...
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Donovan has been the subject of many greatest-hits compilations. Sony's budget ten-track Super Hits series is a nice one to start with, however it does leave off a few...
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Donovan's album debut, What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, presented his breakout British single, "Catch the Wind," and added an assortment of pleasant folky jams. Though he...
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Donovan's second album found the Scottish folkie in possession of his own voice, a style of earnest, occasionally mystical musings indebted neither to Woody Guthrie nor Bob...
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In 1965, before Donovan's U.S. contract was transferred to Epic, he made 30-plus recordings for Pye in the U.K., all in an acoustic folk mold (with occasional additional...
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As its name suggests, The Very Best of Donovan: The Early Years concentrates on the earliest, folkiest part of Donovan's career, when he was still seen as the British...
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Anyone who likes the Donovan of "Sunshine Superman" or "Mellow Yellow" will probably want to ignore this album -- but anyone who liked the Donovan of "Colours," "Turquoise,"...
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