{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-remembers-singer-songwriter-jd-souther", "Congressman Cohen Remembers Singer-Songwriter J.D. Souther", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", "cohen", "https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) spoke from the House floor today remembering singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, who passed Tuesday at 78. Souther wrote songs covered by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt and others. In his remarks, Congressman Cohen recalled a living room concert Souther and Jackson Browne held during the Congressman\u2019s first election to Congress in 2006 when they played \u201cNew Kid in Town\u201d in his honor.\n\nIn those remarks, Congressman said in part:\n\n\u201cThis morning, I woke up to bad news. One of my friends, J.D. Souther\u2026, a great singer-songwriter and an actor to boot, passed away yesterday in New Mexico at the age of 78. J.D. wrote a lot of songs that the Eagles did, Linda Ronstadt did, covered, and performed some of them, too\u2026When I was elected to Congress, he came to Memphis with Jackson Browne to do what I consider probably the greatest fundraiser in history. It was a small house\u2026and the two of them did an hour concert for the few people who could cram into that living room. And J.D. sang \u2018New Kid in Town\u2019 about me, saying I\u2019m going to be \u2018the new kid in town\u2019 in the Congress\u2026I think about that a lot.\n\n\u201cWhen I got elected, J.D. called me and said, \u2018Steve, you\u2019re going to The Show.\u2019 Well, \u2018The Show\u201d is major leagues parlance for going to the major leagues, and we were both baseball fans. He was just a great guy. He was smart as hell. In the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He had a great voice\u2026I kind of got him from Warren Zevon who was my pal and Warren kind of willed him to me. Warren was dying and he said, \u2018Steve, I\u2019ve got a friend who\u2019s moving to Nashville and you-all should be friends.\u2019 When I met him in Nashville, he said \u2018I need to get something out of this and I want to get married. Can you marry me?\u2019 And I could do marriages and I married him at Burt Stein\u2019s house and Rodney Crowell was the only witness. The marriage didn\u2019t take but I did the best job I could. J.D. was my friend. A great American songwriter. He will be missed.\u201d\n\nSee the entire floor speech here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-remembers-singer-songwriter-jd-souther"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4089527539908886, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}