Donovan
Donovan was not of the sixties or seventies or of any other
time period. But thankfully, he has been with us since the
sixties, and against that backdrop of psychedelia, he looks
quite fine. The Gift From a Flower to a Garden album is a
tour de force of humanness. Gift was released as a
two-record boxed set featuring glowing color prints of
Donovan in fantasy attire alone and communing with the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, also of Beatles fame. One of the two
records was entitled For Little Ones and was filled with
music suitable for children. Many of the songs are
characterized by a mood of gentle fantasy, with exquisite
lyrics evoking brilliant and surprising images, laid over
smoothly-structured, elegantly simple acoustical guitar
arrangements.
by Charles Carreon
