They were one of the most successful folk-rock duos of the 1970s. Michael Brewer and Tom Shipley—Brewer & Shipley—are still making music together more than 50 years after they first teamed up. They’ll play a concert here in Springfield (Brewer says it’s the first time they’ve played here in a LONG time) next Saturday April 20 at the Fox Theatre on Park Central Square. In a phone conversation this week, I asked Michael to talk about how he and Tom first got together. “We both ended up as staff songwriters for A&M Records when it was brand-new label,” he said. “And we didn’t plan to be a duo, but we’d go into the studio and record demos on our songs for the record company to pitch to other artists. It didn’t take long to realize—both ourselves and A&M—that we kind of had our own thing happening. So A&M said, ‘Well, why don’t you guys record your songs?’ So we did. That’s how our first album, ‘Down In L.A.,’ came about, and that’s how we became Brewer & Shipley.” Last
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