Published July 6, 2010

Sure, you’ve woken up with him every morning for years. But you barely know the man.

WBUR’s Bob Oakes remembers the summer of 1975:

Cassettes blasting for hours and hours on the road in my summer of 1975 coast-to-coast-to-coast tour with friends in Bob’s Ford Window Van — the one with six huge speakers in the walls, shag carpet on the floor and a bed in the back. From Massachusetts to Wyoming and Colorado and California and back, it was Bob the “Wild Child,” too many stories, most never told and never repeated.

Yeah, it’s for real. Bob traveled back in time last night, to Tanglewood, for an evening with James Taylor and Carole King. You must read his review.