Wuss singer-songwriters unite! You have nothing to lose but your floral-embroidered guitar straps!
I think that for me it's a close call: Browne, with Taylor in second. Both have a few songs that redeem them from the dustbin, and can make me hum along from time to time in spite of myself. "The Pretender," "Lawyers in Love," "Steamroller," "Never Die Young." Not mindblowing, but not completely without merit.
Denver seemed like a sweet enough soul, and I have nostalgic feelings about some of his songs. It's possible that his embrace of twang puts him on the country shelf and thus safer from ridicule.
I see no excuse, really, for Fogelberg or Loggins.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I almost put Croce in there, but think he's really of another era, and would go better in a TS with Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, that explains the beard.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
See above.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
BTW i love all this stuff
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― DougD (DougD), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I share Puffin's nostalgia for some of John Denver's stuff, but don't really need to hear it. "Jet Plane" and "Country Roads" are pretty good songs. Dan Fogelberg I only know one song by. James Taylor is possibly the least interesting ex-junkie musician ever.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Friday, 6 May 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I gained renewed appreciation for Denver through the Toots and the Maytals cover of "Country Roads" and especially Robbie Fulks's cover of "Jet Plane."
Dan Fogelberg indeed the worst, but not as bad as his namesake Dan Hill.
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
And I agree that Mr. Browne can be a stellar songwriter. His rootsy rawk posture is vastly more credible than Loggins's attempts to crank up the volume ("Footloose," the "Top Gun" theme, etc.).
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Artistically, putting him up against John Martyn, Nick Drake, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell would be more fair (I am not saying he'd still win when put up against them though)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course, it's been many moons since I've heard a Dan Fogelburg song.
― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
The first album > the second album > the third album > anything else he ever did. I like me some Jackson Browne.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I love that. It implies that the best cry and the rest laugh, first of all, and never being sure if it's real can be a pretty heavy emotion.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
All we know for sure: he's giving up a lot of weight and a lot of reach in that fight.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 28 November 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 28 November 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Loggins: smooth.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I prolly mentioned this before on ilx, but the closest I've ever come to dying was nearly drowning in kenny loggins' pool when I was in 2nd grade. it was at his kid's birthday party.
when me and my brother were getting put on an ambulance and everyone else at the party was huddled around us, kenny loggins decided to go for a hike.
― iatee, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
also dan fogelberg is secretly awesome
― iatee, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
he didn't save me from drowning or anything, he just has some good songs
fogelberg and browne both hung out with that Eagles/linda ronstadt southern californina crowd...in some circles that might give them some cred... but not in my circle it dont...I agree that Gordan Lightfoot and Jim Croce need to be in this conversation as well...hell, maybe even cat stevens and donovan...and if you are gonna throw them in, then why not Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell?
― acer, Monday, 22 February 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
please explain your circle and its standards of cred please
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
very secretly.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
gg allin needs to be one of the options here. he is secretly awesome, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Jackson Browne is great. Even his strange 80s fixation on Central America yielded some killer songs. You brats better show some respect goddamnit.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Jackson Browne wrote "Somebody's Baby" ergo he is awesome
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Jackson Browne also wrote "Lawyers In Love" ergo he is doubly awesome.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
And Tender is The Night from that same record.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
heard this Dan Fogelberg song on the radio and it made me dislike him even more than I thought I didwhat a jerk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVXYOJzAJM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
He's bizarre: a folkie with New Age and often spectral touches. His music is soothing in a creepy way.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Mickey Newbury can be like that. In her memoir,Stardust Memories, Susie Nelson recalls that she and Newbury were going to run away together (she was underage, he was def. not). Dad Willie and her Mom, usually at odds, prepared to meet Newbury with a six-shooter at the rendezvous point, but he didn't show (precognition?)
― dow, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
apparently this story is autobiographicali imagine her face twisted into a grimace as she recognizes him and then spills her purse i'm sure they both convulsed with laughter on the floor as he claims
can you imagine running into some dude you used to know, having him startle you into spilling your purse, then drinking three beers with him in your car and then he goes and spills the beans about the whole thing in a song this awful? i'd want to murder him.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
sleepless since 3 a.m., I somehow find myself thinking about Dan Fogelberg, whose name, to me, when I was a snotty "everything louder and darker" teen, was anathema. turns out, unsurprisingly, that there is considerably more to him than "Longer" (which still dislike, but I wonder if that also isn't lasting adolescent aversion to a certain strain of grown-up schmaltz). early pre-dawn explorations only allow two observations so far and these are they
1) I wonder if anybody on ilx would have been able to ID the artist listening to this outstanding bluegrass workout without knowing who it was by. The list of bluegrass luminaries on the album is bonkers & the harmonies are unsurprisingly cosmic, just gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W365cFlw4XM
2) the cover of that album, seen in the YouTube embed, is the most striking "I don't give a fuck what you think about me, this is how I'm trying to look" picture I have ever seen
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 23 November 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Fogelberg has an incredible voice
― brimstead, Friday, 23 November 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link