Adam Howard

Something's Wrong, and then more famously in the next go-round and the next group of songs, Fire and Rain and those things. Was it strange and difficult to see your own experience turning into songs and then becoming these kinds of universal vehicles for other people's feelings? Very strange indeed.

Something's Wrong, and then more famously in the next go-round and the next group of songs, Fire and Rain and those things. Was it strange and difficult to see your own experience turning into songs and then becoming these kinds of universal vehicles for other people's feelings? Very strange indeed.

But it had to be, you were saying, it had to be peculiar. Yes, of course, it's true for everyone, but a writer, maybe six people, read it. When a musician genuinely develops a following, it's millions of people who see your music as their internal, not just as your journal, but as their internal diary. And that's an extraordinarily rich time.

But it had to be, you were saying, it had to be peculiar. Yes, of course, it's true for everyone, but a writer, maybe six people, read it. When a musician genuinely develops a following, it's millions of people who see your music as their internal, not just as your journal, but as their internal diary. And that's an extraordinarily rich time.

But it had to be, you were saying, it had to be peculiar. Yes, of course, it's true for everyone, but a writer, maybe six people, read it. When a musician genuinely develops a following, it's millions of people who see your music as their internal, not just as your journal, but as their internal diary. And that's an extraordinarily rich time.

What's the first song of that body of work that you feel, a lot of it you still perform, that you feel is strong, is a finished song that you feel good about?

What's the first song of that body of work that you feel, a lot of it you still perform, that you feel is strong, is a finished song that you feel good about?

What's the first song of that body of work that you feel, a lot of it you still perform, that you feel is strong, is a finished song that you feel good about?

You still do material from that period, and I know you've talked about it a lot. But one of the things that interests me, if you don't mind, just to fast forward a little bit, as a listener of yours, as a follower of yours, one of the things that seemed to me to be true, and I wonder if it was true, is that in the kind of mid-'70s, you were searching a bit for a sound for work.

You still do material from that period, and I know you've talked about it a lot. But one of the things that interests me, if you don't mind, just to fast forward a little bit, as a listener of yours, as a follower of yours, one of the things that seemed to me to be true, and I wonder if it was true, is that in the kind of mid-'70s, you were searching a bit for a sound for work.

You still do material from that period, and I know you've talked about it a lot. But one of the things that interests me, if you don't mind, just to fast forward a little bit, as a listener of yours, as a follower of yours, one of the things that seemed to me to be true, and I wonder if it was true, is that in the kind of mid-'70s, you were searching a bit for a sound for work.

And then beginning in the late 70s, you started doing a couple of things. You started doing covers for the first time. You started doing Motown covers, how sweet it is and so on. And it seemed as though there was a kind of rebirth through sort of being free to do other people's work as well as yours and sort of shedding the skin of Sweet Baby James and of that material.

And then beginning in the late 70s, you started doing a couple of things. You started doing covers for the first time. You started doing Motown covers, how sweet it is and so on. And it seemed as though there was a kind of rebirth through sort of being free to do other people's work as well as yours and sort of shedding the skin of Sweet Baby James and of that material.

And then beginning in the late 70s, you started doing a couple of things. You started doing covers for the first time. You started doing Motown covers, how sweet it is and so on. And it seemed as though there was a kind of rebirth through sort of being free to do other people's work as well as yours and sort of shedding the skin of Sweet Baby James and of that material.

Was that a fantasy or did you feel some of that?

Was that a fantasy or did you feel some of that?

Was that a fantasy or did you feel some of that?

You have that beautiful song, Only a Dream in Rio. Did Brazilian music open up your ears and your musical vocabulary?

You have that beautiful song, Only a Dream in Rio. Did Brazilian music open up your ears and your musical vocabulary?

You have that beautiful song, Only a Dream in Rio. Did Brazilian music open up your ears and your musical vocabulary?