I know you will think this a crazy one.

But I can't stand even the thought of hearing a recordng of my dear dead friend Roger Brooks.

I wish I'd been a better friend to him. I hate the wasteage. I hate it that for specious reasons they don't play his one album on folk programms - for I thought his songs were the best to come from our generation.

I hate it because it reminds me of all my failures. The way I failed Roger; and the way I failed as a writer, because I'll never write anything a tenth as good as his best four or five songs.