VALERIE, GUS, & BOZ
In 1977, I was living in Dallas, and my friend Chuck and I had a little four-track recording studio in our house. I was (and still am) a songwriter with designs on a music career. One of the albums I was listening to at the time was called A Stone’s Throw Away by a beautiful singer named Valerie Carter. I loved the record, which featured musical backing by members of Little Feat and Toto, and I loved her voice, which I imagined harmonizing with. So, I wrote a song called “Run Your Life Away” wit