Jackie Lomax died. Does Tricia Olson know? She played me his music in her green stucco Furby street apartment sometime before the 70s ended. I had all the Beatles solo records and knew some of their offshoot pals like Harry Nilsson, Badfinger even Klaus Voormann but I never heard of Jackie Lomax – and he was on Apple and George Harrison produced his soulman debut  “Is This What You Want?”

Over the years I heard he became a Los Angeles musician and I don’t think his life was so easy. I had the fantasy that if I was a little more successful and rich, I would seek him out and if by luck I persuaded him to trust my arrangements and enthusiasm I would offer to produce an album and bring him to Toronto. One more fantasy I can check off my to do list. If you never heard him listen here