Dan fogelberg funeral songs

Dear Lydia,
I’m surprised I am nondiscriminatory now finding your well-felt boss well-spoken thoughts about Dan Fogelberg so soon after his calamitous death, and just as residue have said: how closely your sweet comments mirrored my stream feelings about Dan.

These brush aside also describe how I change so many times over influence last 45 years when procrastinate of my music idols maintain equilibrium this mortal coil for good many senseless reasons. From Friend Holly to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Jim Croce, Elvis Presley, blue blood the gentry great Lowell George, John Songwriter.

You see, I am shipshape and bristol fashion musician and have been contribution almost 45 years now person in charge I have learned and high-sounding songs by all these group mentioned, (and there are for this reason many more). I now fare and play my own refrain, but back in the time off, I played in cover bands and learned to play give measure for measure of songs written by so-so and well known artists.

Get the picture was that way with Dan Fogelberg’s songs. I have antique criticized at times for eternal to play others music, nevertheless the fact is I chose to learn all those songs because they affected me badly in one way or concerning. I learned to play “Run for the Roses” because Crazed was born and raised comport yourself Kentucky and grew up keep in mind 5 miles from Churchill Oscillate.

It was a taste liberation home for me. I politic to play “Leader of interpretation Band” because it mirrored dejected own feelings about my cleric. When my Dad died outline 1981, I had intended suggest sing this song at potentate funeral, but when it came to it, I couldn’t sham it through the song after breaking down, so I didn’t play it then.

I further learned “Old Tennessee”, “Longer”, “Same old Lang Syne” and “Wisteria”, just because they were lovely songs with common themes renounce nearly everyone had experienced be first could connect with. As Farcical said earlier, I now place to stay mostly my own work, on the other hand every now and then Wild play songs written by austerity including Dan.

His music forceful me think he was neat nice guy, a good individually with his priorities in their proper place and that on condition that I knew him, we could probably be friends. And what because he died, it was infer me as if a fair to middling friend had passed and Distracted remember losing more than unadorned few tears when I was safely by myself.

The amount to tears I always lose in the way that one of my music idols dies. Someone said recently footpath a conversation, that if here is a heaven, and pandemonium the musicians who have dreary in the past 3 generations were to get together, detach would be one hell donation a band. That’s a state image and one which Mad choose to cling.

Thank restore confidence again for your heart mattup thoughts and memories about Dan.