Arriving in Los Angeles from Texas in the late 1960s, the singer-songwriter JD Souther became part of the burgeoning California music revolution that would include Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Eagles, Jackson Browne, James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
When he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame half a century later, Souther, who has died aged 78, was declared “a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters”.
