I’m into music as much as anyone but concerts have always been a challenge. They all seem the same and silly when you step back and listen.

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This one’s different. There hasn’t been a Happy Father's Day in Connecticut in a few years, but now Mother’s Day rings off-key. My mother...

The power of the hands-clasped walk cannot be underestimated. After thousands of years of humans using a hands-clasped walk to sort out...

I didn’t think anyone could make an album this good again. Released in 1996 by the Anglo-Irish band, The High Llamas, Hawaii was decades...

(Originally published for the Litchfield County Times) Paul Winter, founder and leader of the Paul Winter Consort, spends more time at...

What are they doing in there? We’re all used to seeing parked cars everywhere, but remember when they used to be unoccupied? I’m starting...

Thank you for coming back from last Friday! Let's keep going with Side B Woman’s Gotta Have It. Hello Isley Brothers. At least in the...

What a pleasant surprise. At least the first half of the album. I can’t believe I never heard In The Pocket after all these years and all...

Leave it to John Coutinho. To remind you, John (JC) illustrated my book, Unruly Mix: Tales of Music, Artists, Misfits, Posers, last year....

All gas stations suck. Is it written into the business plan of every one of them that you neglect your business and make it look like...

My Virginia experience has been good so far, other than the blown transmission and end of the life of my car 750 miles from home. I find...

I lost my car in the Blue Ridge Mountains this week. It wasn’t my idea, quite the contrary. My transmission decided to off itself...

Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short When you reach September When the autumn weather turns the...

It’s coming. The Bridgewater Country Fair. For two years, Covid stood in its way, denying the good folks of Bridgewater their annual rite...

I miss my banjo. It went missing from a garage storage area a few years ago. My own fault. I was no virtuoso, and didn’t know the proper...

Who would have thought I’d become friends with a lizard? It’s hard to come by true friends in Florida, but I think I’ve found one. I...

Cont. In addition to songwriters, I called authors. I reached out to author T.C. Boyle last year when I was getting near the end of my...

I first wrote about Ken Ascher by mentioning his and Paul Williams’ name in my Unruly Mix book last summer. In the story, I wrote about...

First song: Very nice. Rest of the album: OK. Donald Fagen’s album Morph the Cat, released in March 2006 provides good listening pleasure...