Enough to Be on Your Way

Kevin Remembered, a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr.

Tonight I was washing dishes and listening to James Taylor while the kids showered upstairs. The song I had on rotation was “Enough to Be on Your Way.” It is a favorite of mine and never fails to bring back memories of Kevin McCarty.

I bought the CD when it came out in 1997 and was so impressed by it that I took it with me to visit Kevin in his studio apartment in Marion, Indiana. We listened to this song in particular and when it was over I noticed Kevin had a funny grin on his face. “Man,” he said, “no one can sing the “F” word and make it sound beautiful like James Taylor. “

Kevin was tall and lanky like JT and I've often imagined that if his skull hadn’t been malformed by the radiation treatments he’d received as a child for retinoblastoma he would have looked very much like him.


So long, old pal.