As subjects go, the quaint hippie hood of Laurel Canyon is the gift that keeps on giving—much like the STIs traded freely among its inhabitants. In the half century that has passed since its peak, scads of books, television programs, and oral histories have thumbed a reverential ride back up the winding roads between Sunset and Mulholland.
Now Epix is premiering a new documentary on the subject: director Alison Ellwood’s new two-part docuseries Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, that premiered May 31. Through newly found, playfully intimate photos and footage, fresh interviews with a few dozen key players, and extensive photography collections and narration from Canyon photographers Henry Diltz and Nurit Wilde, Ellwood serves up a sun-dappled, quarantine dream of a place whose significance to the era’s music scene can’t be overstated.
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