“The Sunset Strip is synonymous with action and excitement … what’s happening in music.” – that’s how the back cover text of this record begins. Los Angeles in the late ’60s: beatniks, LSD, politics, and of course always music. That’s exactly the vibe A Trip Down The Sunset Strip aims to capture.

The Leathercoated Minds, a studio project featuring J.J. Cale, turn Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man into a psychedelic trip: reverberated guitars, driving drums, vocals serving more as atmosphere than the focus. Folk transformed into neon-soaked psych-pop.

The album aspires to be nothing less than a “sound picture of the Strip” – voices, traffic, music, all blended together. And right in the middle of it all, this Dylan classic suddenly feels tailor-made for the shimmering backdrop of the Sunset Strip.