Peter Gammons announced he is leaving ESPN today after two decades at the network. One of the great benefits of playing with Buffalo Tom for just a bit longer than that, is that I have had the privilege to meet guys like Peter, people who are fans of the band. Peter, along with Jeff Horrigan …
Note on 3/18/2019: As with all of these posts, this was the original, from 2009. I have seen a bunch of people post this video since I wrote this. But back then, it was not all over social media yet. Have you seen this video? It has been passed around on the web for a …
[April 2019 update: The below essay and its predecessor were combined and edited and published by my friend, Ken Kurson in The Observer in 2013, when Ken was editor there. I would recommend reading the published piece over the below blog post. I have not proofed or edited this post since the original.] Not much …
Cover of the Week 54 Cry Baby Cry and Part II of the Miami Saga Read More »
I’m going to start off this week by putting the cover song right at the top, to save you from scrolling down if you don’t feel like reading a book. [Removed — download/stream new file at music services] I’m not sure if writing all this that follows here is appropriate. And I almost feel the …
Cover of the Week 53 Waters of March and Some Words About Losing Someone Read More »
I guess it has been a full year of these. Not quite, as I believe it counts a couple of bonuses. I don’t think I specified that I would only do it for a year, however. And while it has not always been easy to crank one out during some particular weeks, it has not …
This is for all of you who requested a Faces cover, though I don’t believe anyone asked for this song. It is my favorite Faces ballad and, probably, my fave number overall from them. I am a sucker for the descending chord sequence; instant melancholy. Autumn in New England is also instant melancholy. Just mix …
[Updated and reposted September 19 in response to this insanity.] I used to play “Rocket Man” during some solo acoustic sets in the early/mid-’90s. The only places I recall playing it are in the U.K. Specifically, I remember a set in Wales. I think this is because there might have been a recording of …
Kay Hanley and Lori McKenna at Hot Stove Cool Music, January 2008, with me grinning appropriately for a part time man of rock. One of my favorite pictures. Oh yeah, please let me know who took it, so that I may give credit. I am not yet convinced that Twitter is worth the hype. But …
I always loved when our friends in the band Fuzzy pulled out Neil Young’s “Losing End” in their sets. What a great old song, and really cool when sung by Hilken Mancini and Chris Toppin — two women’s voices in place of Neil’s and Danny Whitten’s. You’ll have to forgive my version. It slips a …
Cover of the Week 45 & 46 Losing End/Cortez the Killer Read More »
Labor Day weekend. Down at my parent’s place on Cape Cod. We’re in the garage about to leave for the last hurrah of the summer at Old Silver Beach with my mom and the kids. My father is seeing us off from the garage. I look down and see a big box for a 3M …