Hosted by Jakob Dylan, (who is joined by some of his generation's most talented singer-songwriters), this film is about the creative echo that bands from the Laurel Canyon scene in 1965-1967 left on future generations of musicians. After interviewing the original artists about selected songs, Jakob and friends play fairly direct-interpretation cover versions of them. I was expecting the film to be more comprehensively about the Laurel Canyon musical salons and life, so I was disappointed in some way by it, but settled in to enjoy the film as it is presented once I discovered otherwise. The highlight for me was the segment about Buffalo Springfield, which included some of their magnificant performances from that time. I learned a few interesting things from the film such as that The Beatles were inspired by Pete Seeger's, "The Bells of Rhymney," for "If I Needed Someone," and the same for Eric Clapton's "Let It Rain," which drew from Buffalo Springfield's "Questions."
Review of Echo in the Canyon
