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The Six-Pack on Abington Hill: The True Christmas Eve Story Behind Dan Fogelberg’s ‘Same Old Lang Syne’
The Six-Pack on Abington Hill: The True Christmas Eve Story Behind Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne” It was Christmas Eve, 1975, in Peoria, Illinois, and the snow was falling. Dan Fogelberg was twenty-four years old, home for the holidays, and he had been sent out on the most ordinary errand in the world: his…
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Dan Fogelberg: The Painter, the Pilot, and the Private Heart Behind the Hits
The songs made him sound like an open book. “Leader of the Band” laid his family history bare. “Same Old Lang Syne” confessed a true story down to the street address. “Longer” was practically a vow spoken aloud. Millions of listeners felt they knew Dan Fogelberg intimately — and that was exactly the illusion he…
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How Dan Fogelberg Created “Nether Lands”: A Snowbound Masterpiece in the Colorado Rockies
By the winter of 1976, Dan Fogelberg had everything a young singer-songwriter was supposed to want, and it was starting to bore him. He had a gold record in “Souvenirs,” a hit single in “Part of the Plan,” and a reputation as one of the prettiest voices in seventies soft rock. What he did not…
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The Untold Story of Dan Fogelberg: The Christmas Eve Encounter, the Bandleader Father, and the Song That Wrote Itself in a Hammock
He was the soft-rock poet of the seventies and eighties, the voice behind “Longer,” “Leader of the Band,” and “Same Old Lang Syne.” But Dan Fogelberg was never quite the gentle, simple troubadour his ballads suggested. He was a restless multi-instrumentalist who could play nearly everything on his records, a pilot, a painter, a man…