8 Miles High

Richie Unterberger

Backbeat Books, 2003 - Music - 343 pages

Eight Miles High documents the evolution of the folk-rock movement from mid-1966 through the end of the decade. This much-anticipated sequel to Turn! Turn! Turn!(00330946) - the acclaimed history of folk-rock's early years - portrays the mutation of the genre into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; the maturation of folk-rock composers in the singer-songwriter movement; the re-emergence of Bob Dylan and the creation of country-rock; the rise of folk-rock's first supergroup, CSN&Y; the origination of British folk-rock; and the growing importance of major festivals from Newport to Woodstock. Based on firsthand interviews with such folk-rock visionaries as: Jorma Kaukonen, Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Judy Collins, Jim Messina, Dan Hicks and dozens of others.

What people are saying

Review: Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

User Review  - Andrew - Goodreads

This was damn tasty. Unterberger's detail-rich prose occupies a space between the academic and the conversational.

Review: Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

User Review  - Ed Wagemann - Goodreads

Not too shabby

About the author

Richie Unterberger is an established music journalist & frequent contributor to the" All Music Guide", "MOJO", and "Record Collector

Bibliographic information

• Title: 8 Miles High
• Author: Richie Unterberger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Backbeat Books, 2003
• ISBN: 0879307439, 9780879307431
• Length: 343 pages
• Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional; Music / Genres & Styles / Rock; Music / History & Criticism