Dan Fogelberg and Elvis

"Another Dan Fogelberg sighting!" came the voice on my telephone, as my Friend-in-Fogelberg Kevin reported to me after he and brother Barry returned from their daily walk at Shelby Bottoms, and he described, as he has several times in the past three years or so, a fellow walker in the lower East Nashville park who, according to the brothers, is a spitting image of Dan Fogelberg during his Wild Places period (ca. 1990), not only with similar facial features but also the pulled-back hair and pony tail. When they pass him on one of their daily walks, they greet him with "Hi, Dan!" which he always acknowledges with a chuckle.

Then as I turned to make my way back to the kitchen, the snow turned into rain, and on TV, the newscaster was saying, "Another Elvis sighting today...". Just for a moment I was taken with the idea that people would start seeing a live Dan Fogelberg in diverse places, just as they continue to see Elvis, alive and well, then I decided to google "Dan Fogelberg and Elvis", the product of which was:

(1) Glenn Spreen, who produced, conducted and directed both Dan and Elvis, and

(2) http://greenleegazette.blogspot.com/2007/12/dan-fogelberg-dies.html which described a family setting around a supper table with a particular/peculiar discussion of Dan Fogelberg just the evening prior to Dan's death being revealed. The author said that, for some unexplained reason, this has happened around that table numerous times, the first of which was Elvis. They have a particular/peculiar discussion of a famous person, and, the next day, the person is dead. The author does say that he puts no particular significance on this inasmuch as he is sure that he is not personally causing the celebrity to die, but, as he says, it is curious.

Dan lives. His music is here forever.

Thanks, Dan.

We'll always love you.

And Elvis, you know we love you too.