I’m still coming down from the savory fumes set off at the Tom Petty Tribute show at NEC last Saturday night. It really was a remarkable show of...
Without knowing it, I’ve been calling comedian Jay Grove the wrong name for, well, about five years. That’s when I first met the brawny funny man...
Sorrow has won the day. And you can’t tell me it hasn’t.I’m filled with dread on this first week of October, simmering in a low-based depression...
Ten years ago, my world changed.First, though, my heart broke because radio god, Howard Stern, was leaving the regular air waves for something...
Growing up, my brother, Mike, was mad about his music. He’d lock himself downstairs in the basement of our home for hours cranking Jackson Browne...
You could ask me in a flyby conversation how many home runs former third baseman of the Boston Red Sox, Butch Hobson, hit in 1979 and I would tell...
“Werewolves of London” was the very first Warren Zevon song I ever heard.Probably that is the case with most of us.The song came out in 1978 on a...
Being raised by a fiery-tongued Irish woman who weighed no more than 100 pounds but carried herself as if she was Josey Wales in a housecoat, you...
The first few lines of Katie Dobbins’s new CD, She is Free, pretty much sums up the existence of many of us, where the expectations are high...
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”So, we did.All the way to Woody Creek, Colo., on the weekend of Independence Day. Myself, my brother and a good...
In August 1977, things changed. The King died. Elvis Presley himself.And at 7 years old, I had no clue who Elvis Presley was. But when the Boston...
This years Market Days in Concord is going to roar. Likely the biggest and best yet, for many reasons.Driving down Main Street these days, with the...