Random Track of the Day
Monday, October 31 2011
Another good track taken from my extensive collection by random selection, this is one of my all-time favourite artistes, the late great Dan Fogelberg.
Hard to say --- Dan Fogelberg --- from "The innocent age" on Full Moon
A great song from a truly great double album, “The innocent age” is described on the cover as “a song cycle”, and indeed it is, beginning with songs about birth and following through a life to the inevitable conclusion we all face. Most of you may know Dan for his hits like “Longer”, “Leader of the band” and the perennial Christmas favourite, “Same old lang syne”, but this is a nice little country-tinged ballad about trying to figure out why a romance just didn't work out. Backing vocals by Glenn Frey, too. Sadly, we lost Dan four years ago, and are unlikely to see a songwriter of his calibre and gentle grace again.