THE TIMELINE / CHAPTER TWO
1970 — 1979
First songs,
first dates &
the mud of
Wyoming.
01 / COMING OF AGE
The 70s were coming-of-age years: junior high, high school, concerts, surfing, sports, first love, first heartbreak, first recordings, and the Martin D-35 that turned songwriting from a hobby into a diary.
02 / THE MUSIC
The 1970s
in five songs.
Five songs from the decade my writing started to sound like me.
03 / THE PRIVATE WEATHER
Homecoming
and prom night.
The girls who touched my heart, and the inspiration for some of my early songs.
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04 / 1976
Yee haw! My mother threw my father a surprise 49er party in 1976 for his 49th birthday.
05 / ABROAD
Israel1974
Visiting my brother on the kibbutz and smoking hash. 1974.
06 / WYOMING · SUMMERS
Thrown from a horse, thrown into heartbreak, working summer jobs, learning guitar, starting piano, and writing the songs that made the private weather visible.
THE SPOTTED HORSE / 1970s
Ranch
hand.
A day at the Spotted Horse. We went there every summer starting in 1970. Thrown from a horse, thrown into heartbreak, summer jobs, learning guitar, starting piano, and writing songs that said what I actually felt.