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Buckeye

If you’re looking for a respite from this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world… I recommend this book. Which I was hesitant about in the beginning, because it’s a “Read with Jenna Pick.” Not that I knew this when I reserved it on Libby a few months back after reading a review in the […]

The Boston Book

1 Where were you the first time you heard “More Than a Feeling”? Probably driving around in your car listening to FM radio. This was 1976, the first Ramones LP came out that year, but it took decades for it to go gold. The Stones were changing guitarists. McCartney had followed up 1973’s “Band on […]

A Fantastic Book

There is a courtroom scene in this book that is so tense… That I wanted to tell you about it just then, when I read it. But I figured I’d better finish the book first, to see if it’s good throughout. And it’s GREAT! What you’ve got here is four sections, “Water,” “Earth,” “Fire” and […]

Derek Shulman’s Book

  If you’re a fan of the man and his bands you’re gonna love this book. I met Derek back in 1990, when I wrote about the Rembrandts, a band on his nascent label, Atco. Their manager sent me an advance cassette and I loved it. It was a return to form for Danny Wilde, […]