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Finding Covers – “O Mary, Don’t You Weep”
Bruce Springsteen has a new album out. The album is called High Hopes and, as one would expect, its release has triggered a cacophonous accompaniment of articles, interviews and record reviews. Though I have certainly not read and/or heard them all, the … Continue reading
One Thing Leads
My friend Chuck is a follower and frequent comment-leaver (#2 for 2013!) of this blog. His first comment of 2014 was left on my first post of 2014 – Happy New Year. Chuck wrote: “Just like a hazy shade of winter.” … Continue reading
Happy New Year
As the sun sets behind the hemlocks and the birches in my New Hampshire backyard on this first day of 2014… …I wish you all – followers, readers & comment-leavers; viewers, listeners & frequent or just-occasional visitors – a happy, healthy, … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: “Sweet Little Sixteen”
On Thursday evening, January 31, 1974, I attended a concert at The Music Hall – now known as the Citi Performing Arts Center’s Wang Theatre – in Boston, Massachusetts. Joni Mitchell was the headliner. The very popular singer, songwriter, guitarist, … Continue reading
A Hymn For The Holiday And The New Year
In 1993, I became the guitarist for The Amity Singers, a contemporary Christian vocal group at First Parish Church Congregational in Dover, New Hampshire. After I’d been with the group for a few months, I presented them with an arrangement … Continue reading
A Thanksgiving Song
I know what you’re going to say. “‘Over The River And Through The Woods’ is a Christmas song.” Well… Here’s the story. The words to “Over The River And Through The Woods” were taken from a poem. The poem was … Continue reading
T-Bone Strikes Again
The latest issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine – January 2014, Issue 253, Vol. 24, No. 7 – arrived in today’s mail. The monthly collection of song transcriptions in this issue – “6 Songs To Play” – is an especially good … Continue reading
Wrestling With The Angel, Chapter 7
“Dublin Blues” is the title of an album and a song by songwriter, singer, guitarist & luthier, Guy Clark. The album, Dublin Blues, was released in 1995 and was Guy’s 8th album. (His first, Old No. 1, came out in 1975.) It … Continue reading
This Historic Day… My Son
For my birthday this year, my son took me to a concert. We went to see the Allman Brothers Band with Grace Potter & The Nocturnals at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA on September 6. My most cherished memory from that … Continue reading
Here We Are
On April 6, 1998, I put the finishing touches on a new song. “Hold On (Tight)” was my reaction to a time in my life, my family’s life, that was indeed filled with “dark, demanding days.” I wrote the song … Continue reading
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