EMILY SALIERS

singer-guitarist with folk-pop duo Indigo Girls

“Oh, I remember it really clearly. My dad told me that he’d give me a penny for every dandelion that I picked in the yard … I think he just wanted to create something for me to do, to keep me busy. And I picked 500 of them, and I ran out and bought the Jackson Five’s ‘I Want You Back.’

“I played that record to death. I had pictures of the group all over my closet walls and stuff. I was a total little teenybopper girl in love with the Jackson Five.

“I think those early Jackson Five records had some of the most brilliant arrangements in pop music ever. And Michael had the most incredible solo – almost soprano – voice as a kid. I’ve always been drawn to great soul artists.”