A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
Originally packaged in a two-record box set with an expensively printed set of lyric sheets,A Giftwas sincerely meant as a possible present for the hippie who has everything. The first album is theWear Your Love Like Heavenalbum and it's a gem of mid-'60s Mickie Most-produced psychedelic pop. The title track and "Mad John's Escape" are prime pop, but "Little Boy in Corduroy" is the type of weird, childlike folk song that is featured throughout the second album. Titles such as "Song of the Naturalist's Wife," "Voyage into the Golden Screen," and "Widow with Shawl (a portrait)" give a clear idea of how "out there" Donovan went. --Rob O'Connor