What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

^No trouble at all CH. 

I’ve been having a bit of a Dan Fogelberg fest over the past day or so and listened to Nether Lands, Love in Time, The Wild Places and Phoenix. Must be all the excitement of finally getting Spotify in this country!! Woohoo! 

For the most part, he wrote great songs and was such a talented man – musically, and as a visual artist too. On the posthumously released Love in Time, which he recorded knowing he only had a limited time left, he did pretty much everything himself – all the instruments, the lot. He left the album with instructions for his wife to have it released after his death so it really was his swansong and the outro after the last song (his cover of Neil Young's "Birds") is exactly the intro to the first song on his debut album, “To the Morning” – he was closing the circle. Some of his albums swing wildly between very gentle love songs on the one hand and almost blues/rock type material on the other. He had a magnificent falsetto but could also sound quite gritty when he chose. 
 
So many lovely songs to choose from, but I woke up with that falsetto in my head, so …