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...better hurry and get yourself a ticket, in fact, or you'll be standing with the also-lived-in-Cambridges during a real live I-know-I-chose-Cambridge-over-New-Haven-even-knowing-Bonnie-Raitt-lives-in-California-because-her-first-album-was-her-best sunny spring folk music festival. They play on the high school steps in Weiser, Idaho, once a year for the real fiddlin' championship, but this saves camping out on the football field and you will still hear some fine fiddle tunes played by some fine fiddlers...
Before long, everyone knew Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, who had grown up around L.A. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills lived near the top of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa in an old Tom Mix house a short walk away. Browne and Frey and Henley had Echo Park apartments. Linda was in Ocean Park. Jim Morrison of the Doors was the most successful musician of the crew, and the hardest to locate, since he often slept on the beach near Venice...
...Fogelberg, Bonnie Raitt, Marshall Tucker, and Bruce Springsteen. All will be in town soon. Sit by the bulletin board at Out of Town News until you freeze for all I care...
Browne's music obscures his best vocal performance on "Here Come Those Tears Again." Here, backed by Bonnie Raitt, he passionately mourns "his baby walking out the door." But when Browne subtly rejects his lover ("I'm going back inside and turning out the light, and I'll be in the dark but you'll be out of sight," the well-crafted message is drowned in a guitar riff. Evidently, producer Jon Landau--also responsible for Bruce Springsteen's commercial selling-of-the-soul album, Born to Run--deserves the blame for this confusing melange of lyrics and music...
...writing an article about Daniel Ellsberg for Esquire magazine and getting ready to leave for Europe on a traveling fellowship. His classmate Michael Sacks, a Loebie whose performance in The Promise Rich remembers "liking," quickly starred in George Roy Hill's film of Slaughterhouse Five. Another classmate, Bonnie Raitt, didn't even wait to graduate--she kissed Harvard goodbye in 1970, her junior year...