The City's Backyard Ep 207 Eclectic Singer-Songwriter Fred Hostetler Channels Johnny Cash with Thought-Provoking New Single "A Man In Black" & has stories working with award winning producer Jack Douglas when Lennon's Double Fantasy was being recorded!

Fred Hostetler is an indie artist, American musician, singer/songwriter, and author who has worked with major artists including Johnny Winters, Graham Parker, the Knack, Billy Squier, Jeff Beck, and Grammy award winning producer Jack Douglas. Along with Karen Lawrence he founded the highly acclaimed southern California blues band Blue By Nature. His style, while grounded in blues and Americana traditions,  cannot be defined by a single genre.He won the LA Music Critic Award for Best Singer Songwriter 2019 ...and nominated for Best Video 2019 ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ ”  Fred Hostetler's new single ‘A Man in Black’ is an interpolated song about a song. "It is about the writer of that song and about a mother pleading with her son: “Don’t take your guns to town”. It also refers to Johnny Cash’s memorable 1971 album ‘Man in Black’ and the powerful statement it made," explains the longtime singer-songwriter with a loyal fanbase and a resume recording and playing with rock luminaries including legendary producer Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, John Lennon), who produced a record by Hostetler's previous band, LA stalwarts, Blue By Nature.  "This is where the American icon, Johnny Cash, the Man in Black returns. He dressed in black explaining “it was for those who didn’t have a voice: the poor, the imprisoned, the soldiers sent into war, and the marginalized who lived outside the spotlight,” says Hostetler. "Cash had the audacity to deliver a powerful message about guns to nation obsessed by them. He came to be identified as a truth teller. Bearing these things in mind, a little-known indie artist tries with a little help from an American icon and his sing to cast a glimmer of liight into the dark gloom of the human condition, hopin every day people can return to their lives in peace."https://fredsheartradio.com/