Jan Elizabeth Watson

Jul 24, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Alan Paul |Fred Shaw |Joann Cantrell |Jan Elizabeth Watson

The road may go on forever, but it began in my brother’s bedroom on Inverness Avenue, where he handed me a copy of the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach and told me to listen to it, when I was in seventh grade. I put on some headphones, lay down on the yellow shag carpet, dropped the needle and got swept away by both the music and the gatefold’s psychedelic artwork.