At Intermittent Signals, Steve Stav has some fantastic material on Northwest singer-songwriter, Danny O’Keefe:
One of country’s great singer-songwriters has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of his life, but a relative few northwesterners recognize Danny O’Keefe’s name. More will recognize at least two of his songs, however. Jackson Browne covered O’Keefe’s “The Road” for his Running On Empty album; what doubtlessly earns O’Keefe even more in royalties is a true American masterpiece called “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues…”
Full story is here.