More about Laurel Canyon as a music scene

LA Weekly - Back to the Garden: "Laurel Canyon scenesters found a regular hangout in The Troubadour, which opened as a folk club in 1957. 'It was like the clubhouse,' says the scene’s unofficial photographer, Henry Diltz, who also played on its stage with his band the Modern Folk Quartet. 'It was a place you would go and all your friends would be there. You knew all the groups that were playing, you had affairs with the waitresses, and Harry Dean Stanton would be sitting at the bar.' For ambitious singer-songwriters, this was also the only game in town; multi-night runs bestowed instant stardom on both Joni Mitchell and Elton John. And for the period of time that the scene was small and new enough to be contained inside the club’s doors, the Canyon’s idyllic feel was carried down into Hollywood."