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Herb Metoyer: It's A Long Way Down That Road

Herb Metoyer was a Detroit-based singer-songwriter and novelist who’s maybe best known, if at all, as the author of a song on Fred Neil's Sessions album, "Fools Are a Long Time Comin'.", a copy of which was placed by astronauts in a time capsule on the moon. He was also an early mentor to, and lifelong influence on Mike Taylor, who performed extensively with John Denver and co-wrote the song ‘Rocky Mountain High’. Metoyer wrote songs for more than 40 years, and was one of the few African Americans to come out of the 1960s folk movement, being prominently associated with Fred Neil and his circle. He played with Joni Mitchell, Josh White, Vince Martin and many others, and cut one wonderful – and totally unsung – LP for Verve Folkways in 1965. This is the first time that the whole LP, Something New, has appeared on YouTube. Metoyer went on to publish two novels and published over twenty books for other authors. His last novel, Small Fires in the Sun, chronicles the struggles of three cultures trying to coexist in colonial Louisiana – the French, the Spanish, and the African slaves. In 1984, he became a founding member of the Detroit Black Writers' Guild. He was also a helicopter pilot in the US Army during the Vietnam War, rising to the rank of Major. He died in 2015 of pulmonary fibrosis, in Southfield, Michigan.