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Donovan - What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid (1965)

Track listing:
  1. Josie 3:23
  2. Catch The Wind 2:52
  3. Remember The Alamo 3:02
  4. Cuttin' Out 2:15
  5. Car Car (Riding In My Car) 1:27
  6. Keep On Truckin' 1:46
  7. Goldwatch Blues 2:29
  8. To Sing For You 2:40
  9. You're Gonna Need Somebody On 3:59
  10. Donna Donna 2:52
  11. Ramblin' Boy 2:29
  12. Catch The Wind (Original singl 2:13
  13. Why Do You Treat Me Like You D 2:51
  14. Every Man Has His Chain 2:10
  15. Colours (Original single versi 2:42

Notes

Donovan's album debut, What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, presented his breakout British single "Catch the Wind" and added an assortment of pleasant folkie jams. Though he was often derided at the time as a pale imitation of Bob Dylan, there isn't a lot of evidence here; true, he does cover a Woody Guthrie song ("Car Car Riding in My Car") and gives it some twang worthy of the master, but his style is his own, slanted toward the mysticism of British folk less than the earthiness of its American cousin. Donovan summons the proper age-old weariness for "Goldwatch Blues," gets a bit bluesy for "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond," and lets it all hang out for "Keep on Truckin'."