J. Brian

still livin' the dream...

First Folkie Fifty

Had a text chat with Eric Green, who wrote the wonderful foreward to my Memoirs, regarding the First Folkie Fifty album - 1972/1982 - that originally inspired me to write Still Livin' the Dream - a life of song & stage - 1972/2022. He noted the song I Need You and gave me his interpretation of the lyrics. This motivated me to go back in and listen to the song. This song is 45 years old. I was just in the embryonic state of my professional songwriting career. I listened and sure enough, Eric's interpretation was astute. In hindsight, I realized that I was already writing in a prophetic sort of manner (not knowingly), a kind of "writing on the wall", in what would come to pass in May 1994. I admire Eric's focus on lyrics. For me, as I note in my book, there are several elements to songwriting and production, the most important for me, always has, is now, and will always be, the lyrics.

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