I'm told New York Times obituary writers pre-game assignments, writing the life stories of celebrities and other well-known folks far in...

My friend Hilary had to say goodbye to her beloved friend, Star. Star, a Bernese Mountain Dog, was a purebred canine supermodel: She had...

I had a conversation with a booking agent this afternoon. Many of you have asked if we plan to play this winter and the answer is... we...

(Or why we should be) There's plenty of generational bias out there. Millennials are entitled. Gen X? Sarcastic. Gen Zs have a (weird)...

John and I were out making a Valentine's Day delivery, when we noticed a sign in the neighborhood and made a U-turn. It directed us to a...

Ah, 2020. The year none of us—except maybe science fiction writers and former President Barack Obama and the CDC—ever saw heading our...

With both of us unemployed (for awhile), and with COVID-19 infection rates climbing across much of the United States, a 2020 summer...

On April 8, 2020, my manager Slacked me, saying we needed to touch base. This wasn't uncommon: she lives and works in Portland, Oregon...

Today, with America potentially hitting ctrl/alt/delete on our social sacred cows, maybe it's time we start over by thinking carefully about

When I discovered popular music, I was an 11 year old suffering from chronic bronchitis and resting at my grandmother's house. A...

(clickbait headline doesn't reflect blog - I just thought it was funny) (this is not a musical post, either) My parents were WWII...

To our old and new friends -- including dancing wait staff, boogying booking buddies and amused family members -- I want to thank you all...

Between tweets, shootings and news about people behaving really, really badly, I just don't want to know anything, anymore. So let's talk...

I love the word "windfall." It sounds like its definition. An online dictionary defines it as "a piece of unexpected good fortune." As...

Today, we salute Armand. A few years back, our friends Dawna and Colleen started bringing Armand to our gigs. The three of them came out...

What the hell. One minute you are wearing shoulder pads, tight jeans, stiletto heels and fingerless, crocheted gloves, and the next you...

It's a unique business, this band stuff. The stew of creating and selling art, with co-workers side by side, often leaves me feeling a...

I was a card-carrying member of the David Cassidy fan club. After sending off a few dollars in the mail, a tiny, red wallet card...

Last night, before our gig, my friend Dawna showed up. Dawna comes to so many of our performances. She dances and sings along, bringing...

When we were asked to play a surprise 90th birthday party this summer, we weren't sure what to expect. We shouldn't have worried. Well...