The '60s and '70s heralded the Golden Age of singer-songwriters in the recording industry. The arrival of FM radio created a broadcast and consumer market for Album Oriented Rock (AOR) that paved the way for the labels to forefront singer-songwriters as feature artists without the immediate

I was a die-hard, do-it-yourself, all-or-nothing musician for 20 years. I was a theatre kid. I formed a band at 13. I had to lead in the high school musical. My career really began in earnest though when I abandoned academics at McGill University in