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Exiles

Dan Fogelberg

Full Moon/Epic, 1987

REVIEW BY: Duke Egbert

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 03/18/2008

Dan,

You don’t know me, but I’m a big fan. While we’re going to miss you here on the mortal plane, I just wanted to congratulate you on your ascension to Musical Valhalla. Have fun hanging out with George, Gram, Billie, and the rest of the regular residents. (And don’t let Wolfgang get you to play Texas Hold’Em. Dude is a SHARK ever since he started watching cable TV.)

Interesting though it may be, you may eventually get tired of swapping tall tales with Harry Chapin and Woody Guthrie and start considering your afterlife career options. If I can be so bold (still being alive and all), I really recommend you look at apprenticing on as a muse, guiding mortals to greater artistic genius. (That’s small-m muse. Large-M Muses are still the nine hot chicks in togas. Say hi to Thalia for me -- she’s an old friend.)

However, when you put in your musing application, they will ask you for what you feel is the best representation of your body of work. And I just want to give you some advice: hand them The Innocent Age, Nether Lands, The Wild Places -- in short, anything but Exiles.