Dan Fogelberg
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:42 pm
Dan passed away this week. He was different, especially for the times he came up in. He stuck to his style and his sound and he finally got to where he belonged. I saw him live here in Houston on Thanksgiving Day 1974, opening for Dickie Betts and Great Southern...a country offshoot of the Allman Brothers. Dan had the long hair and the jeans (we all did) but I thought it was a mismatch with Betts' band because he was doing acoustic pop, love songs and ballads (delicate stuff...soft and gentle), and everybody was there to get high, boogie and raise Hell with Betts and his boys...Doc Watson, Les Dudek, etc...a couple of hecklers finally chilled out and Dan finished his set, but I remember thinking how beautiful his music actually was in spite of the noisy squalor he was dealing with in front of him and how if it were displayed properly to the kind of audience that appreciated it, he'd be a star some day. He stood out that day more for what he didn't do than for the fact that he played and sang an excellent set of his own music. Rest in peace, Dan Fogelberg. You paid your dues and made it to the Big-Time...your way, all the way. WC1
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