On Thursday evening, we heard that our friend, singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, had died in a house fire in Woodbury, MN. I still can’t believe that she’s gone.

I’ve been a huge fan of Jill’s music since the beginning- she was one of the smartest, funniest, singer-songwriters around, writing songs that tackled important issues with wit and humor.

And as Seth Rogovy wrote in her obituary in The Forward,

While most obituaries and appreciations have noted that Sobule’s song topics were often autobi...