Subject: Squeee! Fogelburg!

[celticdragonfly]

Okay, this is yet another episode of "I live under a rock", yes, I know. If I was in touch with the world I would have known this stuff probably a year ago.

Dan Fogelburg is one of my long-term favorite musicians. I have and love Souvenirs, Innocent Age, Windows and Walls, Exiles, Greatest Hits, Wild Places, and um, selenite got me one of the live albums from the last decade, I forget the title and I'm feeling too lazy to go search for it. His music has tended to be the stuff in my collection that I'm most likely to put on and just hit play and listen to the whole album.

One of the only concerts I've ever gone to was a Dan Fogelburg concert in Baton Rouge that my then-boyfriend Andrew took me to in high school, a solo acoustic tour, which was really cool - it felt like a smaller, more intimate concert than it really was, because it was just him, talking to us all about the music, and playing the music as it was originally written just by him, before being re-arranged with all the multiple instruments and bells and whistles and such. And he was telling us stories about the music and about how it came about. It was an absolutely marvelous evening.

So selenite darling has found out for me that he has a new album out, not a greatest hits or a performance album but a new studio album, and it's been a long time since he's had one of those. It's called Full Circle. (Okay, it came out in May. Of 2003. See above comment about me living under a rock. I hadn't known about it until now!) I was listening to some of the clips of it, and debating going out and buying it. I realized that I never did get to hear his album River of Souls, anybody familiar with that one want to comment on how good it was?

He's also TOURING again! Now, normally I'm not big on going to concerts. I generally figure I can listen to the music just as well on a CD in my living room, and crowds are a bit difficult for me. But this one is another solo acoustic tour! Ooooh! Here's the tour info. I think it's cool that he's doing a solo acoustic tour again. That's the music as you don't get to hear it any other way.

He's not actually coming to Texas, sigh. No, of course it couldn't be that easy for me. All stuff east of here, up and down the more coastal stuff. (Well, coastal from my point of view.) He is coming to Morristown NJ, that's interesting, that was where I went for the other half of high school. Just a tad too far, that one.

So does my flist have any other Fogelburg fans?

Or are you, like Opus in Bloom County, saying to yourself, "Who the dickens is Dan Fogerburp?"

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[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Back way back at my first job, I was doing new accounts at one of the lobby desks when a nice young man came in with an older man. He had a bunch of money in a cd that had matured, and he was getting advice on his options from his manager.

Tim Weisberg. He was very, very cute.

A few years later, a nice man with his rather elderly aunt sat down at my desk to consider options for her extra funds. She had put a big chunk of change at passbook rate, which back then was 5.5%-- and the six month cd rate was about 11%. She took out most of the passbook money and made a cd out of it, and set up a monthly automatic transfer of interest back to the passbook account since the cd was simple interest. He was her only family left, and he obviously cared for her very much. She was obviously touched and flattered that he'd scheduled time to see her in his busy touring schedule-- and just adored him.

Steve Miller. Not as cute as Tim Weisberg (he had something of a pizza face), but more successful. I did not tell him that I'd had to ask my mother what the phrase 'midnight toker' meant...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Those are cool stories.

My grandmother asked me about Leader of the Band, and what was that singer's name? Turned out she knew Dan Fogelburg's father. Not surprising, really, as IIRC the Fogelburgs were from Illinois, and my grandmother was an English teacher and band director just over the river in Iowa, I expect they were going to the same competitions and such.

[quiva.livejournal.com]

I remember lying on the floor in front of the stereo, listening to my Dad's Fogelberg records. I own High Country Snows and Greatest Hits. 'Longer' is the song my parents danced to at their wedding and my father still sings it to my mother. 'Longer' and 'Leader of the Band' are my favorites although I can't listen to the latter without crying.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him; but I notice he'll be in Atlanta in October, so maybe I'll check him out and see if it's worth getting tickets.