Donovan tried to recruit Hendrix when he went in the studio in the late 1960s, but ended up working with the soon-to-be Led ...

One of the most popular classic rock songs for the Halloween season is Donovan's "Season of the Witch." The "Hurdy Gurdy Man" singer once said the track was "prophetic." When asked to explain the ...

The Hurdy Gurdy Man. A figure whose patchy career since the ’60s has often seen him overlooked and undervalued, Donovan today manages, with no small amount of charm, to combine a raggle-taggle ...

For example, Donovan’s “Season of the Witch ... which was a totally unsocialist way of looking at things,” the “Hurdy Gurdy Man” singer opined. “They thought the masses were just ...

Alongside other tracks like “Atlantis,” “There Is a Mountain,” and “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” “Season of the Witch” shows that Donovan was among the most spiritual of all pop stars.

As many pointed out in the comments, this blurs the line between a guitar and a hurdy gurdy.

If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities.

Folkd rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch ...