by Brad Smith
For editorial input, sage advice, and enduring friendship, I would like to mention Lorraine Sommerfeld, Jennifer Barclay, Donna Morrissey, and Linda Muir.
Thanks to Mitch Bowden, for showing me the difference between a Gibson and a Fender.
From Simon & Schuster Canada, my gratitude to Kevin Hanson, Alison Clarke, and my friend Lorraine Kelly.
Thanks to Adam Vollick—a Canfield boy—who lighted the winding path that led to Neil Young.
I owe a debt (and a pint or two) to Mike Murphy and Herb Schilling of Kingston, New York.
My endearing gratitude to Wendy Sharko and Julie Casper Maynard, from Canada’s best little bookstore, The Avid Reader.
A bushel basket of thanks to my editor at Scribner, Anna deVries, who loves books and the Yankees unconditionally.
And a bushel more to my agent, the tenacious and loquacious Victoria Sturnick.
