“The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled. It was a country in which families routinely disappeared, trailing bad checks and repossession papers . . . It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the GNP high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not . . . ”

— Joan Didion. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968

Rewind forty years and everything’s different and everything’s the same. Heavy on the reverb, here’s a simple fuzz mix for an hour and some change. These are fifteen well-worn songs for motoring through the back roads of the desert and crashing in cheap motels where you can hear the bugs zapping into the neon as you fall asleep and the radio says something strange like the streets are paved with gold and if someone asks you, you can call my name…

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KinoSport – Delta Skylark 70 (68 minutes)

00. Introduction: Million Dollar Music and Some Rain
01. Love – A House is not a Motel from Forever Changes, 1967
02. The Byrds – Eight Miles High from Fifth Dimension, 1966
03. The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much to Dream from Nuggets, 1973
04. Stevie Wonder – Jesus Children of America from Innervisions, 1973
05. David Bowie – Space Oddity from Space Oddity, 1969
06. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit from Surrealistic Pillow, 1967
07. Shocking Blue – Love Buzz from At Home, 1969
08. Roger & the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet from Pass the Hatchet, 1965
09. Quicksilver Messenger Service – Mona from Happy Trails, 1969
10. Cream – Sunshine of Your Love from Disraeli Gears, 1967
11. Diana Ross & the Supremes – Reflections from Reflections, 1967
12. July – Dandelion Seeds from My Clown, 1968
13. The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs from Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967
14. 13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside this House from Easter Everywhere, 1967
15. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain from Maggot Brain, 1971