Cindy:

Did Michael ever perform at the Grand Ole Opry? If so, have any details???

Pat

In concert, Gustavus Field House, Saint Peter November 10, 1979

https://mjblue.com/songs/Mother%20Night.mp3

Songwriter: Mark Henley
Lyrics: 
Mother night, starling flight
On homeward path do bend
Colored light, for the sight
Of window watching friends

I can tell you've been here in the morning
Insweeping on the grass
But I know it won't last too long

Violin echo in
And deeper darkened still
Cow bells, chow bells
Over the hill swells
Infant winter's chill

Seen the sun going down in the meadow
In streaking all the grass
And I know it won't last too long

And you carry me though
These empty hours again
And you, and you
Making it truly easy to pretend

Seen my feelings melt down all around you
Incasing you in glass
But I know it won't last
And I know it won't last
And I know it won't last too long

Added to the misc page:

Music Video of the Day: Bluer than Blue by Michael Johnson (1978, directed by ????) Posted on August 18, 2021 by Jedadiah Leland 

On August 1st, 1980, MTV premiered and played a total of 116 music videos over a 24 hour period. The 18th video that they played was for Michael Johnson’s Bluer than Blue, which features the singer singing about a failing relationship in a blue-tinged house. 

This was an early music video, made three years before MTV even premiered so it looks fairly primitive to modern eyes. It’s still a step up from the performance clips that were used for most music videos during the late 70s. It actually has a narrative, albeit a simple one. 

Source:
https://unobtainium13.com/2021/08/18/mus...rected-by/

Michael’s dummer on Mj Album, Dialogue, You Can Call Me Blue, Departure, Then & Now

https://musicrow.com/2021/08/prolific-dr...ne-passes/

I've been trying to find an audio version of the Michael Johnson/Mark Henley song "Froggin" to no avail.  My copy of Mark's Riversong LP, where I first heard it, is long gone. I've seen the album on eBay for $40-$50, but I don't want it that bad.   And the song itself doesn't seem to be anywhere I've looked on the internet, nor on YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon music, or Spotify.  Did they ever perform this instrumental in concert?  Is there a version of it lying around in the archives?  Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Sioux Falls December 1975

https://youtu.be/D7RsUpnf2yo

MJ mention by Steve Martin on the Howard Stern show May 16, 2016

https://mjblue.com/songs/stevemartin20160516.mp3

Thanks to Carl Franzen for letting me know.

https://youtu.be/6o0FjO277JE

Sermonette (Jon Hendricks), I Want a Son (Stephen Dorff, Martin Panzer), People Still Fall in Love (Thom Schuyler), California is a Mental State (Mac McAnally), Almost Like Being in Love (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe), On The Road (Carl Franzen), Our Snowflake Dreams (Ted Anderson), Holding on to Nothing (Mac McAnally), Catch Another Butterfly (Michael Williams), Dialogue (Tom Snow, Patti Dahlstrom), Mona Ray (Leo Kottke, Michael Johnson), Political Science (Randy Newman), It's My Job (Mac McAnally), I Can't Live Without It (Tom Snow), When I’m Home (Michael McDonald), Coming Back To Me (Polly Bolton, Roger Bullen, Dave Cooper, Kevin Dempsey, Martin Jenkins), If Wishes Were Horses (Mike Settle), Bluer Than Blue (Randy Goodrum), My Old Yellow Car (Thom Schuyler), Sailing Without a Sail (Bill LaBounty, Roy Freeland), The Wonderful World of Sex (Michael Smith), Old Fashioned Love (Roy Freeland, Bill LaBounty), Reunion (Hugh Prestwood), See You Soon (Paul Johnson), Hymn (Noel Stookey), I'll Always Love You (Tom Snow, Eric Kaz), Bluesette (Jean “Toots” Theilmans, Norman Gimbel), People In Your Life (Marc Jordan), This Night Won't Last Forever (Bill LaBounty, Roy Freeland), Twenty-Five Words or Less (Bill LaBounty), Walk Me Round Your Garden (Richard Pinney), Quel Dommage Pour L'Amour (Michael Snow), Don't Look for Love (Thom Bishop)

https://mjblue.com/songs/Labor%20of%20Love.mp3
Songwriters: Michael Johnson, J.D. Martin
Say it isn't so, something deep inside
...
Keep it to yourself, ...
...

Labor of love, you pay your dues in paradise
Even on the darkest night you know
Stars shine above, ...
So remember to treasure the labor of love

He takes it on the chin, sometimes she needs to see him bleed
He hides his heart, she wear it on her sleeve
He smiles and says you're right, softly she says I apologize
...

Labor of love, you pay your dues in paradise
Even on the darkest night you know
Stars shine above, ...
So remember to treasure the labor of love

When your heart is breaking, it's just your soul that's waking to a labor of love
You pay your dues in paradise
Even on the darkest night you know
Stars shine above, ...
So remember to treasure the labor of love

Mark Henley with MJ on guitar and vocals, By Then

https://mjblue.com/songs/By%20Then.mp3