Man Out of Time
Another clip from the MFA show a few weeks back: Some of you will recall that I covered this song way back in March of 2009 for the CoTW. I love playing this song.
Crazy Eddie
We just stopped off in New York for an overnight with the kids on our way to the Shore for a vacation. I was telling my kids stories from when I would first make trips in from Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s and I was reminded of this one. Shortly after my uncle …
Vids from MFA show
Thanks to Kevin Guiney for transitioning the old sites into this new format. Thanks also goes to Kevin for taping the solo set I did at the Museum of Fine Arts show on Aug 10, opening for Tift Merritt. The setting, in case you have not had the chance to see a show there, is …
Summer Songs for Boston Mag
This is the full, unedited version of a post I wrote for Boston Magazine. With my day job marketing real estate entering the semi-dormant state of the dead of summer, my attention veers back to music, specifically, songs that I love to play during the summer. Since I am trying out Spotify, I will attempt …
Indian Wrestling
I grew up with a guy, let’s call him Neil Eruzioni. His father was a barber and – at least back then, when I was growing up in New York – used to cut the hair for wise guys who “played bocce” at the… let’s call it the “Fisherman’s Club,” an Italian-American social club. Neil’s …
You Got the Gig, Kid…Dispatch from Nantucket Film Festival
(from Boston Magazine.com) For the past few years, I have had this website with the ironic title of Part Time Man of Rock. We all know there is not supposed not be any “part time” in “rock.” When my wife was a kid, she misheard the Kiss song “Rock & Roll All Night” lyric. …
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New Target Cancer Tracks
Two new songs up at the web site for the charity, Target Cancer, RightTrackTunes.org. You might remember the Christmas tunes we did for the same organization. One is a Van Morrison cover, the other is a Staples Singers cover. Many of you who used to come to the Toad and Lizard Lounge residencies of yore …
Vinyl Confessions From a Man Cave
From my latest post for Boston Magazine dot com: Since today is June 15, 2011, known in Boston as Stanley Cup Game 7, I have a confession to make: watching hockey makes my eyes glaze over. I know this is ridiculous coming from a baseball fan who can spend four hours watching (and with intense …
CoTW 104 — Deacon Blues
May 2011 I struggle with Steely Dan. When I was a kid on Long Island in the 1970s, suburban New York was awash with the mellow, edgeless sounds of Steely Dan coming down the powerful FM airwaves (“no static at all”). Not that I could articulate it at the time, but they represented a sort-of …
Almost Famous
From my latest on BostonMagazine.com: I just got home late Saturday night from the last of the Buffalo Tom touring for 2011. (Because, really, why would a rock band want to play on a Saturday night and come home instead on a Sunday?) It had been an especially intense little run of five West Coast …