He has some very nice music, but I never bought any of his albums. I think it was because of the stations I listened to at the time and the friends I had then: they top-40'd his music and played it to death.

It's hard to sort this out: Beautiful Blue is very much a 70's throwback to me... I hear elements I associate with the Dead, Pink Floyd, and Led Zep in there... even Neil Young, all combined as a classic Tom Petty 'last waltz.' I don't even hear the lyrics, just the the melody.