Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. John’s University. He is the author or editor of numerous books on popular music, including Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and John Fogerty: An American Son. He also coedits the journals Rock Music Studies and Popular Music and Society.

“Presented here is the first book to examine critically the full range of Richie Furay's songcraft. Using Furay's life story and his successive recordings to outline the chapters of the book, Thomas Kitts engages pertinent contemporary evaluations of Furay's artistry and also reflects critically upon those assessments in light of subsequent developments in ongoing rock and roll culture.”—Theodore Louis Trost, co-editor of Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgments 1 “We Were the Dreamers”: Richie Furay and Yellow Springs 2 “Consequently, So Long”: Otterbein College and Greenwich Village 3 “What a Day”: Laurel Canyon and Buffalo Springfield 4 “Merry-Go-Round”: Confusion in the Springfield 5 “Anyway Bye Bye”: The End of Buffalo Springfield 6 “Pickin’ Up the Pieces”: Poco 7 “C’mon”: Hope and Frustration8 “What Am I Gonna Do”: Decisions9 “On the Line”: SHF, Marital Problems, Conversion 10 “I’ve Got a Reason”: Going Solo 11 “With My Whole Heart”: The Ministry and Devotional Music 12 “Still Deliverin’”: Into the Twenty-First CenturyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. John’s University. He is the author or editor of numerous books on popular music, including Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and John Fogerty: An American Son. He also coedits the journals Rock Music Studies and Popular Music and Society.

“Presented here is the first book to examine critically the full range of Richie Furay's songcraft. Using Furay's life story and his successive recordings to outline the chapters of the book, Thomas Kitts engages pertinent contemporary evaluations of Furay's artistry and also reflects critically upon those assessments in light of subsequent developments in ongoing rock and roll culture.”—Theodore Louis Trost, co-editor of Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgments 1 “We Were the Dreamers”: Richie Furay and Yellow Springs 2 “Consequently, So Long”: Otterbein College and Greenwich Village 3 “What a Day”: Laurel Canyon and Buffalo Springfield 4 “Merry-Go-Round”: Confusion in the Springfield 5 “Anyway Bye Bye”: The End of Buffalo Springfield 6 “Pickin’ Up the Pieces”: Poco 7 “C’mon”: Hope and Frustration8 “What Am I Gonna Do”: Decisions9 “On the Line”: SHF, Marital Problems, Conversion 10 “I’ve Got a Reason”: Going Solo 11 “With My Whole Heart”: The Ministry and Devotional Music 12 “Still Deliverin’”: Into the Twenty-First CenturyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. John’s University. He is the author or editor of numerous books on popular music, including Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and John Fogerty: An American Son. He also coedits the journals Rock Music Studies and Popular Music and Society.

“Presented here is the first book to examine critically the full range of Richie Furay's songcraft. Using Furay's life story and his successive recordings to outline the chapters of the book, Thomas Kitts engages pertinent contemporary evaluations of Furay's artistry and also reflects critically upon those assessments in light of subsequent developments in ongoing rock and roll culture.”—Theodore Louis Trost, co-editor of Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture

• List of Illustrations PrefaceAcknowledgments 1 “We Were the Dreamers”: Richie Furay and Yellow Springs 2 “Consequently, So Long”: Otterbein College and Greenwich Village 3 “What a Day”: Laurel Canyon and Buffalo Springfield 4 “Merry-Go-Round”: Confusion in the Springfield 5 “Anyway Bye Bye”: The End of Buffalo Springfield 6 “Pickin’ Up the Pieces”: Poco 7 “C’mon”: Hope and Frustration8 “What Am I Gonna Do”: Decisions9 “On the Line”: SHF, Marital Problems, Conversion 10 “I’ve Got a Reason”: Going Solo 11 “With My Whole Heart”: The Ministry and Devotional Music 12 “Still Deliverin’”: Into the Twenty-First CenturyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex