Dan Fogelberg

Released two years ago, Dan Fogelberg's first album, Home Free, acquired a cult, though it
received scant critical or commercial notice. Set against a glowing Norbert Putnam
production, Fogelberg's pastoral romantic ballads, delivered in a high, quavering tenor,
sounded as appealing as sweet Crosby Stills & Nash. Souvenirs is more elaborately textured,
a tour de force of instrumental and vocal overdub, in which Fogelberg sometime... More >

It took the poor fellow three years to write these songs--why, just the title of "Changing Horses" represents weeks of thought--but in a heartwarming show of togetherness his friends helped with the record. Joe Walsh produced, Don Henley played some drums, and Graham Nash sang a few harmonies, though in the spirit of his overarching vision Fogelberg prefers to tape those on himself. Inspirational Verse: ". . . you wish someone/Would buy your confessions." (Grade: C-)