Great find, Max. Vince Gill has been a favorite of mine since 1990 when a friend gave me a tape (yes, that long ago) of Gill's songs she loved the most. But it's Earl Klugh that makes this video special for me. In 1984. I was listening to my favorite "adult contemporary" radio station one night in rather low spirits when this track - "A Natural Thing" from Klugh's Wishful Thinking album - came over the air and with that mystical power that music has just uplifted me as few other things ever have. Earl Klugh is a sort of middle-of-the-road artist who hasn't won much praise from the critics but who has maintained a solid and consistent fan base through the decades. Critics be damned - Klugh is a first rate musician and arranger.
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