"I wish the world was as gentle as he was..."
‘Highway Butterfly’ is a recently released 3+ hour tribute collection of Neal Casal’s songs recorded by 41 artists & 130 musicians between February and December 2020, performed by artists including Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Bob Weir, Steve Earle, Shooter Jennings & many more.
It’s a massive listen, and I’ve got it spinning as I type these words.
I knew Neal in the early days…and we stayed in irregular touch through the years. This is what I wrote the morning after he took his own life, in August of 2019.
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