RELEASED 8.4.2013
Breezes Of Patchouli (The Studio Recordings 1966-1969)’ now collects together 6 remastered Donovan albums across 4CDs, beginning with his critical hit ‘Sunshine Superman’, then ‘Mellow Yellow’ home of his most famous track, ‘The Hurdy Gurdy Man’ (which now features a previous unreleased Italian promo version of Jennifer Juniper), ‘Barabajagal’ and finally both parts of the double album release ‘A Gift From A Flower To A Garden’. The set is expanded with an entire disc of bonus material taken from across the albums featured and the pack also includes extensive liner notes written by Record Collector journalist Lorne Murdoch.
CD1: Sunshine Superman 1-Sunshine Superman 2-Legend Of A Girl Child Linda 3-Three Kingfishers 4-Ferris Wheel 5-Bert’s Blues 6-Season Of The Witch 7-The Trip 8-Guinevere 9-The Fat Angel 10-Celeste Mellow Yellow 11-Mellow Yellow 12-Writer In The Sun 13-Sand And Foam 14-The Observation 15-Bleak City Woman 16-House Of Jansch 17-Young Girl Blues 18-Museum 19-Hampstead Incident 20-Sunny South Kensington
CD2: The Hurdy Gurdy Man: 1-Hurdy Gurdy Man 2-Peregrine 3-The Entertaining Of A Shy Girl 4-As I Recall It 5-Get Thy Bearings 6-Hi It’s Been A Long Time 7-West Indian Lady 8-Jennifer Juniper 9-The River Song 10-Tangier 11-A Sunny Day 12-The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow 13-Teas 14-Jennifer Juniper (Italian Version) –PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED Barabajagal: 15-Barabajagal 16-Superlungs My Supergirl 17-Where Is She 18-Happiness Runs 19-I Love My Shirt 20-The Love Song 21-To Susan On The West Coast Waiting 22-Atlantis 23-Trudi 24-Pamela Jo 25-A Poor Man’s Sunshine (NatIvity) (from the Barabajagal sessions)
CD3: A Gift From A Flower To A Garden: 1-Wear Your Love Like Heaven 2-Mad John’s Escape 3-Skip-A-Long Sam 4-Sun 5-There Was A Time 6-Oh Gosh 7-Little Boy In Corduroy 8-Under The Greenwood Tree 9-TheLand Of Doesn’t Have To Be 10-Someone Singing 11-Song Of The Naturalists Wife 12-The Enchanted Gypsy 13-Voyage Into The Golden Screen 14-Isle Of Islay 15-The Mandolin Man And His Secret 16-Lay Of The Last Tinker 17-The Tinker And The Crab 18-Widow With A Shawl 19-The Lullaby Of Spring 20-The Magpie 21-Starfish-On-The-Toast 22-Epistle To Derroll
CD4: Sunshine Superman era bonus tracks: 1-Breezes Of Patchuli 2-Museum (First Version) 3-Superlungs (First Version) 4-The Land Of Doesn’t Have To Be 5-Sunshine Superman (original longer stereo version) Mellow Yellow era bonus tracks: 6-Epistle To Dippy 7-Preachin’Love 8-Good Time 9-There Is A Mountain 10-Superlungs (Second Version) Hurdy Gurdy Man era bonus tracks: 11-Epistle To Dippy (Alternative Arrangement) 12-Teen Angel 13-Poor Cow 14-Lalena 15-Aye My Love 16-What A Beautiful Creature You Are 17-Colours 18-Catch The Wind