Part Eight: The Final Tours

2012-2016

After a year away, Jeremy returned to the states in 2012, and C&J were back on the road...

The first C&J shows in a year and a half took place in September and October of 2012. A few things were different, and would remain that way for the remainder of C&Js time on stage together. The set was reconstructed from top to tail, including solo segments for each member of the duo. 

Chad’s show stopper was “Long Ago And Far Away,” a never released mini-classic about growing older as your children grow into adults. Jeremy’s was a track entitled “For A While There.” Both songs received a fantastic response, and a seed was planted in Jeremy to record and play even more of the material that he’d written but never released over all the years- the material in his metaphorical bottom drawer. 

The fiftieth anniversary of the British Invasion offered C&J the chance to feature in a package tour on the bill with fellow 1960s legends Peter Asher, Denny Laine, Billy J Kramer, Mike Pender from the Searchers, and Terry Sylvester of the Hollies. 

In 2014, as plans for a package tour of 1960s stars were solidifying, Jeremy made the decision to look forwards as well as backwards, and to begin recording solo albums featuring the songs he had not yet recorded as ‘The Bottom Drawer Sessions.’ The concert success of “For A While There” convinced Jeremy that these songs needed hearing and shouldn’t stay locked away any longer.

After damaging his knee and needing emergency surgery on it, Chad started to wonder if the grind of the road was too much as time wore on. Chad decided in 2016 that he would retire as of his 75th birthday, so C&J embarked on a month-long farewell tour, releasing a book and CD rarities package to mark the event. It was titled All Good Things… because as the song says, “all good things must end someday.”