After the world lost the great musical talent Chad Stuart (David Stuart Chadwick) one of Alma’s photos of Chad and Jeremy Clyde was used in the digital and print edition of the obituary in the New York Times. Excerpts below (both in text, and as a screenshot of the photo as presented in the article).
Their gentle voices and acoustic guitars conveyed intimacy, but tracks like “A Summer Song” and “Yesterday’s Gone” took on a grander scale from the sweeping strings, plaintive horns and booming drums of Mr. Stuart’s arrangements. The orchestration had neither the spare authenticity of purist folk nor the electric attitude of rock. Mr. Stuart’s pop tunes made wistfulness upbeat; they were less invasion than invitation.
By Alex Traub, New York Times (December 22, 2020)
The New York Times includes links for the two songs mentioned in the excerpt, but they are to random YouTube channels. Alma would rather link you to the official video of Yesterday’s Gone which she edited together in 2013 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the song.
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