Carole King Instagram – Repost from @lostcanyonsla • “If the Sunset Strip was the commercial center of the pop music and club scene in 1968, Laurel Canyon was its residential center. Wannabe rock stars and groupies waited on line at night to get into clubs on Sunset Boulevard, reveled in both the music and the scene, then crashed in the bedrooms of Laurel Canyon. “You could drive along the winding roads of the Canyon any time of day or night and see people in varying degrees of substance-induced consciousness. The drugs of choice were mostly hallucinogens – marijuana, psilocybin, and LSD, or, as they were called in the parking lot of the Canyon Country Store, pot, shrooms, and acid. As I drove up and down the Canyon in the Mustang with the top down, I could hear music from the side canyons competing with the tunes coming out of my car radio. I could never tell if the local music was live or recorded, but music was always in the air and on the air.” – Carole King from her memoir “A Natural Woman.” 📷 Unknown #caroleking #singersongwriter #folkmusic #folksinger #classicrock #laurelcanyon #1960smusic #1970smusic