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Okay, next song is really, really buried treasure
in digging up all these songs for you to hear
A couple of them were buried so deep
even I couldn't remember writing them, much less playing
Until Milton me some clues

Once I heard this story, it did my own buried treasure
locked away deep somewhere in that way back machine part of my
The unique about simple pleasures is
that it really features Hirsch on a lead acoustic solo
It is a song that got it's
inspiration more from Neil than Gordon Lightfoot

I'd turned on to Fred Neil by Bob Cooke who included several
of his songs in his sets in the Bayou Room
Candyman which became a Roy Orbison hit, Other of this life,
A little bit of rain, The
all coffee house standards that came from his classic album
Bleeker and McDougall and from Bob's repertoire to

Then in the of '69, the movie Midnight Cowboy came out
and featured Harry Nielson's version of Everbody's
That became a hit
As a solo performer and in band I have played in since that time
Everybody's Talking has part of my go-to list
I met in Coconut Grove in 1971 when I went down to play in Miami
for the first and was living with
Jerry but that's a whole other story,

Fred was a great and became a good friend
We fished and played gigs together at the in Coral Gables
and on many project
benefits in Coconut Grove in the 70's
I stayed in touch with him in my comings and goings from Key
and God where
Until he kinda dropped out of just after the millenium
Sadly he passed away on Summerland Key
the of Fred's proteges is long and loaded with famous names
I'm simply to be one of the singers that spent time
in the shadow of his great

So this Simple Pleasure, goes out to Fred Neil