David Jackson, Van Dyke Parks, & Steve Young, all giants in our musical world...

This sold out show was not videoed by me - for one thing I teach a watercolor class in the Conference Room most Mondays, and while I was in the next room, I didn't get to see the wonders of this show. This assemblage comes around periodically, and I hope they come again. If so - get your reservations in early - they always sell out. Those in the know know what giants these guys really are. Look them up.

Steve Young, David P. Jackson, and Van Dyke Parks have triangulated in music for 46 years and change.

As friends, they've paralleled their universes many times since their collision in So-Cal's coffee houses of '63. That's when they met, in the afterglow of the Beat era. As “The Men behind a curtain,” they wrote songs that went to the top: Steve's Eagles' hit "Seven Bridges Road"; David Jackson’s pernicious "No No" song for Ringo (with a l'il help from pal Hoyt Axton); and Van Dyke Park’s "Heroes & Villains" for the Beach Boys.

Steve Young invented the "outlaw" C&W genre, so ably trumpetted by Waylon Jennings in his cover of "Lonesome, Orn'ry and Mean". His first album (he's done over two handsful) was "Rock Salt and Nails", it's the paradigm of "country crossover". Young splits residence 'tween Nashville and L.A. Both Jackson and Parks take this as a homecoming for Young---a time to share a stage with a man widely viewed, for his poetry and ballads, as a Living American Treasure.

Parks will ply his vocal wares from a piano, of his lengthy song-writing career, and Jackson will flaunt his unbelievable croon with his Anglo- Guitarron in hand.

Their set together will cross the borderlines, with them as portable authors, holders of a rich American musical folk legacy they all know like no other trio in town. For some straight Druid marrow and good clean fun, catch Young /Jackson /Parks in their debut Annual Coffee House Gallery Concert.