@bgross, boy do you have some stories. Must admit I came to appreciate Johnston’s music much later than in real time. I like it but don’t have time and place associations like we do with so much of our favorite music.
During most of the 90s I was not getting to listen to much new music. I had little kids to raise and a wife with very limited musical tolerances. I know this is not a unique story - spent many an evening rocking babies to sleep to the tunes on a James Taylor’s greatest hits CD ...