re: #2 Charles Johnson

Bob Schneider’s contribution to this album is also really great.

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Back at Tulane, on Sunday nights in the mid-70’s there was the Dollar Night Concert series which presented mostly unknown promising artists. I saw Leo Kottke, Steve Martin, a double-bill of the Ramones and The Runaways (!), and one fabulous night, an unknown named Phoebe Cates with a guy named Jackson Browne who had just released his first album.

He opened with a RMotW, just him and a piano. It was breathtaking. Song for Adam, Ready or Not, Take It Easy, and so on. That kid was one hell of a songwriter.