IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: THE LIFE & SOUL OF WILSON PICKETT
He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included “In the Midnight Hour,” “634-5789,” “Land of 1000 Dances,” “Mustang Sally,” and “Don’t Let the...
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December 2, 2016
We’re Leaving Home, bye bye
As most of you probably know, Tony Fletcher, Posie Strenz and Noel Fletcher will be leaving home on January 1 to spend 2016 backpacking their way around the world. Campbell Fletcher will be spending...
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December 31, 2015
Boy About Town Bonus chapter
‘Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting’ was originally intended to appear as ‘Number 44’ in Boy About Town’s sequential order of short stories, in between the chapters ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘Join...
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December 27, 2015
Tony, Posie and Noel’s Big Adventure
So, here’s the news… On January 1, 2016, myself, my wife Posie, and our younger son Noel will be setting off on a ten-month, round-the-world backpacking journey. Goodbye Catskills, goodbye...
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September 30, 2015
Why I Sing The Blues: B. B. King and America’s Racist Revisionism
We all have to go some time. And hopefully, B. B. King was able to reflect in his twilight years that he had lived a longer, greater and more illustrious...
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May 15, 2015
Ben E. King: The Sweet Soul Man
It’s hard to imagine a sweeter person in all of soul music than Ben E. King, who passed away on April 30 at the age of 76. Our family...
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May 1, 2015
Boston Strong 2015
Marathon racing is a tough sport, we all know that. It takes an intense amount of training, usually over the cold of winter or the heat of summer, to prepare...
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April 22, 2015
A Monday Musing
Being vegan and athletic, I very rarely get sick. But the latter lifestyle choice does occasionally make for exhaustion – and never more so than if I’m training for a...
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March 9, 2015
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