In my youth I was never into bands, preferring instead the singer-songwriters: Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, Ralph McTell, Gordon Lightfoot. I first heard “If You Could Read My Mind” in a friend’s dorm room my freshman year of college and shortly after I bought the album. It was filled with wonderful songs, but the two that stayed with me were “Approaching Lavender” and “Minstrel of the Dawn.”
“The minstrel of the dawn is gone
I hope he’ll call before too long.”
