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Okay, this song is really, really buried treasure
in digging up all lost songs for you to hear
A couple of them were buried so that
I couldn't remember writing them, much less playing them
Until Milton gave me some

Once I this story, it did unlock 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 also is a song that got
inspiration more from Neil than Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

Fred was a great inspiration and became a friend
We and played gigs together at the Flick in Coral Gables
and on many project
benefits in Coconut Grove in the early
I in touch with him in my comings and goings from Key West
and God knows
Until he kinda dropped out of sight just the millenium
Sadly he passed away alone on Key
the list of Fred's proteges is long and with famous names
I'm simply to be one of the singers that spent time
in the of his great style

So this Simple Pleasure, goes out to Fred Neil