"It was once printed (erroneously) that I met Jean at an “Open Mic Night”. That’s not true. Jean was a life-long professional musician who worked in bands as well as solo, almost from the same age that I did. She actually wrote a song called "Power" that was recorded by the Temptations in 1980. When I met her she was playing guitar and singing at a cafe in Santa Fe. I started going in on a regular basis, we got to know each other, and eventually began dating."

From http://danfogelberg.com/ pertaining to the following article.

Fogelberg Met Wife During Open Mike Night
June 17, 2003
AP Music ~ Entertainment

PEORIA, Ill. - It seems like you can't go to an open mike without someone eventually doing a Dan Fogelberg (news) tune. Fogelberg has no problem with that. It's how he met his wife.

He says she was performing in Santa Fe, N.M., and she was a beautiful woman, so he decided to hear her play. She did "Leader of the Band," and he went up to her afterwards and said, "Great song!" She told him she played that song in honor of her dad, and then Fogelberg introduced himself. He says she was terribly embarrassed but they got together and eventually married.

Fogelberg has a new album out called "Full Circle." He says he's trying to revisit his old sound on the new work. "The title song 'Full Circle' really kind of implies a return stylistically to the earlier work that I did in the '70s and the first part of the '80s which is basically acoustic based, lots of harmonies and more toward the southern California kind of sound that I started with back then than what I was doing in the '90s or the late '80s," Fogelberg told AP Radio.