The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burganrsquo;s unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything. As a naiuml;ve folksinger from Pomona; California; Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds; the Rolling Stones; the Mamas and Papas; Barry McGuire; Bo Diddley and many others make appearances in this 50th Anniversary reminiscence by the surviving cofounder of WE FIVE; the San Francisco electro-folk ensemble whose million-seller; "You Were On My Mind;rdquo; entered the world two months before Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival. Vying with the Byrds to record the first folk-rock hit; Burgan and his lifelong friend Mike Stewart embarked on a road they thought well paved by the latters older brother; Kingston Trio member John Stewart. Little did they realize that they would join the largest-ever American generation in an ecstatic; sometimes tortured; journey of invention and disillusion. Wounds to Bind bears witness to a lost and hopeful convergence in American historymdash;that missing link between the folk and rock erasmdash;when Bob Dylan and Sammy Davis Jr. were played on the same radio station in the same hour. A survivor of the human realignments; tragedies and triumphs that followed; Burgan tracks down the demons that drove the genius of We Five cofounder Mike Stewart and sheds light on the 40-year enigma of what became of the bandrsquo;s reclusive lead singer; Beverly Bivens; a forerunner of Grace Slick; Linda Ronstadt; and Stevie Nicks.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful. One StarBy PatriciaAppeared to have noticeable bias toward her subject.
