'Afternoon Delight' Singer Jon Carroll Says Jackson Browne Changed His Life

'Afternoon Delight' Singer Jon Carroll Says Jackson Browne Changed His Life

Fredericksburg native Jon Carroll, 68, has been making music around the world for decades. He achieved his first notoriety in 1976 with the quartet Starland Vocal Band. The group had — in fact, still has — a monster earworm in the harmonic pop classic, “Afternoon Delight.” (Everyone now: “Skyrockets in flight…!”) The song won two Grammy awards. Carroll also wrote a top 30 song in 1982 for Linda Ronstadt, “Get Closer,” also the name of the album.…