3/24/2024 0 Comments Cat stevens childrenThe melodies were sweet and catchy and easy to sing, and I buried myself so deep inside them that I could even pull off a passable imitation of Stevens, enough to propel me onto the stage of camp “assemblies,” those morning variety shows featuring performances of all kinds, by campers and counselors and staffers, that built community first thing in the morning after breakfast. Not all, of those songs were relatively easy to strum on the guitar, but most were. By 1972, Stevens had already achieved his greatest success with a stunning trio of albums released in the previous two years that, as much or more than the work of anyone else, established the category of “singer-songwriter,” a term that hadn’t even been coined before then. When I went off to sleep-away camp in 1972 for the first time, the soundtrack of the summer - especially for those like me, who arrived with guitar in hand - was all Cat Stevens, all the time.
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