One night in early April of 1986, my friend Jim came back late from doing his radio show on the college station. He knocked on my door and tossed a cassette tape at me. "I think you might like this," he said.
Jim was wrong. For the next four weeks, until I left for the summer, I literally listened to nothing else (I must have bored my neighbors to death). It was the first solo album by Eric Johnson, Tones. Here is the first vocal track from that album, from a recent (?) Austin City Limits appearance. The song is "Friends":
