Dan, I hope all is well.  Love and miss you. God Bless. ~ CN, Derby, CT

Thank you for your words, thoughts  and music. I hope you are finding little joys to help counter your strifes.

Dear Dan, Your song, "To The Morning" is my mom's favorite song in the whole wide world. I also want to send you best wishes! =)  Love ~ Hannah

Mr. Fogelberg, I hope this email does not come off as weird but I felt compelled to write it. It saddens me to think of you in the same spot as me with prostate cancer.  I was diagnosed one year ago and thought I could "tough it out" or it wasn't really cancer, and that if the good Lord gave it to me I must have deserved it.  I looked for every reason to not go for treatment by dragging it out for a year, and thinking it would "ruin my manhood".  My family and friends were pressuring me to go for the treatment but I kept resisting especially after reading about the side effects. One of the reasons I finally decided to go for treatment was stumbling onto your website during some cancer research.  It shocked and saddened me to see you too had Prostate Cancer, but I felt a strange sense of fraternity (if that is the right word) at that moment.  I pulled out your music and listened again to many of the messages in your lyrics and it too had an effect on me.  I cannot explain it but I am now getting treatment, which as you know is not fun, but the tragedy you have endured may have helped save the life of a stranger in an unexpected way.  Thank you from me, my family and friends, for your music, your message and of course possibly even a new life. Wishing you and Jean, as much happiness as you have brought to others but even more so a successful recovery. A cancer survivor ~ Dave Landrum

Preach on! The sermon about PSAs is not heard enough.  Throw in the one about colonoscopies, too. If our women can straddle up for pap smears and get their boobs smashed for mammographies, we can tough out 'the finger'. I know too many of us guys, (musicians can be knuckleheads, too) who are too cool, hardheaded or stupid to visit the doc.  Something about living long that takes courage too. Even if you don't feel like performing, Dan, don't stop writing. ~ Dave Paton

Words cannot express the feelings and emotions that are running through me at this time learning of your struggles.  My warmest thought and prayers go out to you and Jean,  You can beat this and when you do, I pray that you will come back to us.  I would be one of the first to go to your concert.  Thank you so much for sharing your truly amazing talent with us.  You have been a part of my life since I first heard you in 1975.  Forever your fan~ Janice in Phoenix Az

Dan, I am 54. I have been told that I am sensitive and empathic. When I started listening to you years ago your music touched me deeply...still does. I hope you are going to kick this thing! I thank you and I thank God for you and the gift you were given....thanks for using it so well. Blessings to you and your loved ones. ~ jeff

Hi, Dan.  I can't remember what led me to your music but I was hooked the  moment the needle hit the vinyl.  After that first album purchase in  the 80s I backtracked, buying Souvenirs, Captured Angel, Home Free, Nether  Lands, Phoenix, and then onward to the later releases. 
 
Funny, but as my experience increased with my waistline over the years;-),  I kept finding new depths to your old songs -- messages that I missed until I'd gained the knowledge and maturity to hear them.  You've always been an "old soul", haven't you?  Wise beyond your years.  I'm in  awe of the insights you had at such an early age, and I'm so glad you felt  compelled to share them. I can't close without mentioning how much I've enjoyed seeing you  perform live.  The first time was in the 80s at Pine Knob Amphitheater  in suburban Detroit.  A thunderstorm roared overhead while you did an  acoustic set.  Lightning kept knocking your speakers out with a crack and sizzle but you just kept smiling and playing to the concerned delight of your  fans.  Ever the professional. Words aren't thanks enough for the gift you give us which has  been, and remains, a treasured touchstone in my life.  I wish  you improved health and many happy years ahead, my friend, and I thank you  for sharing so much of yourself with us.~ Sarah H. -- Atlanta

Dan, ciao! You and I are truly contemporaries, as I was born in September, 1951.  I grew up in Providence,RI.  My father was a concert violinist as a boy, became ill at seventeen and overcame enormous obstacles to become a surgeon.  Of course, your "Leader of the Band" always touched my heart.  As did so many of your songs - the words, the emotions, the poetry of your voice and soul.

I, too, am a musician - a guitarist who learned classical, then rock, jazz, and country.  But I became a physician like my father.  I am a pediatrician.   But music has always been my center.  And I have always loved your music and played my interpretations of your songs since I was in my early twenties.  Music is my  connection with whatever is timelessly beautiful and noble in the human spirit in these dark days of humankind.  For love is the only thing that endures, the only salvation.  And I believe that music starts with a yearning for love and something ineffably beautiful.  Yet you somehow touched the face of God and gave to us your poetry and your heart in your music.  And for that, I will always be grateful to you.

I am deeply saddened by your tribulations, and I confess that tears are flowing like a river from my eyes as I write this note.  I wish you peace and renewed strength as you recover from your illness.  I know that the world will never know me as they do you.  You have touched so many, many lives, Dan.  You are the Healer.  Thank you.  Best wishes. ~ Jay

I have grown with your music.  It is amazing how it has reached so many lives. I pray that you will overcome this struggle and when you do, take time to reflect your life in the same view we all do. You are truly blessed having inspired us with your honesty.  Due to that, recently I have decided to return to Colorado where I once lived when I was in my early 20’s. It has taken me many years to finally come to the conclusion that you can never be happy if you don’t follow those dreams no matter how old you are. Thank you ~ Silvia

Dan and Jean, Your music has inspired me for years. It has brought me much comfort over the years. I've been a fan from the day I found a newly released Home Free in a record bin in Lafayette, Indiana. Hadn't heard any of the music, I just liked the artwork. Funny how life works. Many a night we went to sleep in our dorm room or apartment to your album, Joni Mitchell's Blue, James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim, and Carole King's Tapestry. Great company and music for the ages. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Our prayers are with you. ~ Dan Davis Maloney, author

I truly am saddened to hear today that you have been battling prostate cancer. Your music and the feelings it's produced in me will be your legacy to me as well as everyone else who has grown up with your music. The very best
thing I could give you is my fervent prayer that you has come to intimately know the One who you will meet one day so that you may live forever making music to our God in heaven. I look forward to hearing you again when all notes are crystal clear and stunningly beautiful beyond the veil of this life. ~ a fan