Kevin Cronin
speaker
2,143 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Jan
Kevin Cronin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so Gary met me.
I played a song, the first real song I ever wrote, I played it for him on my Guild acoustic 12-string, and then I did one song that I used to play in the folk clubs around Chicago that I thought no one knew of.
It's the second cut on side two of Madman Across the Water.
The first cut on side two of Mad Men Across Water is this long opus that Elton and Bernie wrote about Native Americans, and it's kind of a cool thing, but I think it lost a lot of people.
Second cut is a song called Holiday Inn.
Okay.
I thought, sure, I was the only one in the world who ever heard it, and Gary felt the same way.
So I just, of all the songs... Oh, my goodness.
Of all the songs in the world that I could have picked to play...
So that, it was like, boom.
It was like, it was meant to be.
And so, yeah.
But it was his, it was, he was the, he's the guy who Irving saw and said, yeah, because they were playing fraternity parties and stuff like that.
But when Gary came, Irving saw it and went,
Yeah.
Did he talk about that stuff at home or... Well, he never did until he got to be about...
like, into his 80s, into his late 80s.
And I was taking him to the VA because I'm like, Dad, you know... Well, first of all, my dad sent me a clipping from the Chicago Tribune
that basically got me out of going to Vietnam.
If I wouldn't have seen this little article, because the draft numbers had happened.
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