The best songwriter in recent memory died yesterday.
As your attorney, I recommend you go to your stereo and cue up “Desperados Under the Eaves”. Turn it up loud, please, and feel free to hum along when it gets to the part about the air conditioner. It’s OK to play it a couple times over, too. That’s what the rest of us will be doing.
The One Who Leaves
I actually couldn’t bring myself to play his music when I first heard the news. It seemed impossible that he was gone.
Now that album’s on repeat. For the rest of the night. If only I had a disc changer, I could also hear—