Laurel Canyon is a very real place, but it comes off almost as a Brigadoon-style dream in the commemoration of the L.A.
rock scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s that is director Alison Ellwood’s “Laurel Canyon.”The first half the two-part docuseries on Epix, which premiered May 31, threw a spotlight onto the Byrds, Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Mamas and the Papas, Love, Frank Zappa and others who drove the counterculture in the years leading up to Woodstock, and how they were folksy neighbors in L.A.’s least urban enclave.
In part 2, which bows Sunday night, Ellwood delves into the world of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Linda Ronstadt, the Flying Burrito Brothers and, of course, the nascent band that previously was the subject of her “History of the Eagles” doc.Variety spoke with Ellwood between the twin premieres about the making of the ravishingly well-received doc.
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