The Laurel Canyon sound has reverberated down the decades

When Chris Hillman, the bass player for The Byrds, was hunting for a room to rent in 1964, he went to the Canyon Country Store. Today the small grocery, tucked away in the hills above Los Angeles, is a shrine to Laurel Canyon and the musicians such as Mr Hillman who lived among the ravine’s fragrant eucalyptus trees in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photos of rock bands cover the shop like wallpaper. A bin of firewood for sale bears a sign that Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, would have approved of: “Come on, baby, light my fire.”