This song is a wordy bugger, so I have little more to add about it here in this space. The subject matter of this one is not one looking far back, as with the last song, Heckscher Park. It is more from the point of view of the present. Musically, though, it reminds me a little of …
I hit my first and last home run on opening day of my final season of my little league career, with one month left in my 13th year. I was stretching the boundaries of eligibility. I was in junior high already. Some of my friends were playing ball for the school. I was not …
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The first song from my new solo collection. Please click post title to read post. Or just click the player to listen.
Losing Johnny Otis and his protege, Etta James, in the same week is a major reminder that the giants of R&B and soul are leaving us. This was always my fave Etta number. Tears me up every time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgLOreeGJps Hopefully, singers like Adele will carry on the legacy:
From last summer: Here I Come Atlantic: Like Shadows (I mess up a lyric in this rarely played one):
Well, there was so much good about about this weekend’s Hot Stove Cool Music. But then again, there always is. But perhaps the greatest part was the pre-show party the night before at the House of Blues Foundation Room, when a bunch of us played three sets of all-Stones tunes all night, joined in the …
About a year ago, before the BT record Skins was released, I was fooling around with iMovie and a couple of the songs from the record. I had forgotten about these. But the long-delayed wintry mix here in Boston reminded me. Please understand that these are not “official” music videos. I might even get a …
