I got to thinking behind my desk about all the musical talent I’ve seen this past year – at the radio stations, in taverns, at New England College. I mean, it was a preposterous amount of goodness, both in original and cover format, bestowed upon those that chose to indulge, which, I did with an unflinching zeal. READ MORE
I have a radio show, but I don’t know squat about the radio business. I know even less about the many people who work in the industry throughout the state. Even at WKXL in Concord READ MORE
But I was also going to Nashville to feed my own needs, no lie. I was on a mission to witness the brilliance of my latest obsession: a country music singer/songwriter named Colter Wall. READ MORE
This place was my library, my Sistine Chapel, my own personal time machine that would transport me from out of the gloomy tensions within my own life and catapult me into a world of cool. READ MORE
The film studies the “The B Street Band,” a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band cover band that’s been toasting the Jersey Devil’s body of work for 40 years. READ MORE
Did you know Joyce Craig donated the first piano to the Keys to the City public piano program? Neither did I. READ MORE
Without nights like Saturday, I’d swear the world was burning. The negativity is relentless most days, between the feeds and the tweets and the garbage on the airwaves. But the world is far from burning, because when we take our faces out of our phones and turn ourselves over to a higher power – in this case, music – we free ourselves of wasted time. READ MORE
No, it’s not a Chinese Restaurant. READ MORE
It’s getting harder, it seems, each week, to replenish my sympathies, though. Every ten days or so, I’m out in the front yard raising the American flag back up from half mast after a period of mourning. Then, a couple weeks later, there I am again, barefooted, dropping the stars and stripes to middle pole. READ MORE
The show starts at 5:30 p.m. and it’s free. We have about 10 artists ready to perform about 20 songs ranging from Townes Van Zant, Jerry Jeff Walker and Chris Stapleton. READ MORE
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