There was a time when recordings were made to be listened to in their entirety. No single tracks. In fact the spaces between pieces of music were evaporated and all flowed each to the other. Such was the case with
The Youngbloods’ “Elephant Mountain.” If there were a candidate for a recording that remained longest, continuously, on a turntable in some mythic 1960’s college dormitory room, it might be this little biscuit. 13 originals of folk, rock, jazz troubadoring laced intimately together. Stellar instrumentals too. These guys had chops! So have a complete visit and as the recording itself suggests, “ride the wind.”
Cover by Charles L. Heald