Three of songwriting's most singular voices share one Toronto studio in October 1996. Ray Davies, frontman of The Kinks the year the band dissolved, arrives with a cardboard box of belongings and the story of John Lennon's backstage putdown that still stung thirty years later — then performs "To The Bone" solo and acoustic. Don McLean, the man behind "American Pie" and "Vincent" (and the real subject of "Killing Me Softly"), comes with his Martin guitar. And Jose Feliciano — the Puerto Rican virtuoso behind "Feliz Navidad" and the landmark 1968 reading of "Light My Fire" — speaks candidly about mastery, about being blind from birth, and about what the ear hears that the eye misses, then plays "Chico and the Man" live. With music journalist Larry LeBlanc, the three sit down together for a rare round table on where songs really come from. From The Dini Petty Show archive.