In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Music Publishing Credits xv Introduction: “Do It Your Own Ignorant Way!” 1 PART I GOING MY OWN WAY IN THE WORLD Tex and Abe 5 Beats and Bluegrass at Amherst 16 Into the Folk and Bluegrass Pool 20 The Light of Greece 35 Ireland of the Welcomes 41 The Club 47 45 Festival Time 56 i i PART II FINDING MY OWN VOICE Time Out: Bossmen 77 Woodstock 84 Ramblin’ Man 100 Sitting in Limbo 119 Enter: “Cowboy” 123 Baby,LetMeFollowYouDown 135 Toontown 140 The Dead Cowboys 146 PART III FOLLOWING MY OWN PATH At Home in the Studio 153 Coming into My Own 161 Completions 167 Forerunner 174 The Texas Connection 180 Bringing It All Back Home 184 Forerunner: Onward and Upward 188 Infamous Angel 197 Old Friends 200 Carol Again 204 Other Voices 211 i i i i Growing Pains 222 Out West 226 Changing Times 229 PART IV THE LONG RUN A New Life 237 Bluegrass and Folk Voices 242 Prine Country Time I 251 Ireland Calls 256 Back to Business 267 All This Way for the Short Ride 270 Herbal and Me 273 Prine Country Time II 276 Life after Forerunner 280 Discography 295 Index 303 i i ...