All the remaining Laurel Canyon artists should get together and record a JD Souther tribute album, before they too leave us. Jackson Browne, how ’bout it?!
I spent a lot of time in The Troubadour after moving to L.A. in 1979, and really wish I had been living there a decade or more earlier, when that group of people were regularly appearing in that great room. I did manage to see the likes of Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Son Volt, and numerous others on the Troubadour stage, so I still consider myself fortunate. That stage is where Elton John made his U.S.A. debut.