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A Group I’d Like To See — Blues Traveler

It amazes me that the album this song is from came out in 1989. Thirty-six years ago!! It was their debut album and by my memory, they didn’t really hit it big until their fourth album. But their debut album has some great stuff on it.

A Musician I’d Like To See Again — Tallest Man On Earth

Tallest Man On Earth is what I refer to as one of my first Spotify artists — somebody I discovered through the availability of music on Spotify. I likely heard one of his songs on the radio and with this newfangled thing called Spotify, I delved into his catalogue and discovered some wonderful songs. I […]

A Group I’d Like to See — OAR

Years ago, I purchased a CD. Any Time Now, a double live CD from OAR. I have no idea what turned me onto this, but it is probably my second favorite live recording (behind Dire Straits’s iincredible Alchemy). What I loved about Any Time Now was that ever song sounded like a party. Ever since […]

A Group I’d Like to See — Young The Giant

I learned when it was too late that there were multiple opportunities to see Young the Giant last year. I have a former co-worker who apparently is a Young the Giant groupie. She saw them a handful of times last year, several of those times were in locations relatively close to where I live. I […]

A Musician I’d Like to See — Neil Young

Back when MTV actually had music videos and showed music performances, Neil Young showed up on their Unplugged series. I don’t remember if I saw the show, but somewhere along the way I picked up the album that was released from the performance. That album changed my whole music listening dynamic. It turned me on […]

A Musician I’d Like To See — Griffin House

I was thinking of doing a post with a huge list of musicians I’d like to see some day, but the list keeps growing as I delve into my old Spotify Top 100 lists. Those lists go back to 2017. I started listening to that particular list a couple of weeks ago, and I’m really […]

The Kauai Travelogue

The missus and I went to Kauai for a few days. I mentioned a few months ago that we had no trips on the calendar and that’s no good. We talked about a few other options, but after our four week jaunt through parts of Australia, I wanted something relatively simple. So Kauai was it. […]

The Flowers of Kauai (or at least some of them)

A couple of notes. Third picture in, a pinkish cone-like flower, is a picture of the bloom on a banana tree. The next picture is of blooms on a vanilla plant. The interesting thing about the vanilla bloom is that there is no natural pollination that occurs. No bees or other creatures pollinate vanilla. So, […]

An Apology

We spent the last week on Kauai (more on this in a later post). But something happened while we were there and it will always bug me. So … We arrive Thursday night. Friday morning, we signed up or a few things, including a luau Friday night. At the luau, we sat next to a […]

No Trazadone Needed

The last couple of years, I’ve posted several times about the weird dreams I have when I take Trazadone to help me sleep. In real life, I’ve spent the last few days in Kauai. Sleeping without medication. No Traz. No cannabis gummies. My sleep has been dream-free. Until last night when I had two dreams […]