When Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks came out in 1968 I didn’t know what to make of it because I had never heard anything like it. And four decades later I still have not heard anything like it. I still believe it is one of the seminal recordings of the rock era even though you  can [...]

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I am one of those kids who fell in love with baseball in the 1950’s.  You know green grass, ball park cathedrals, the smell of hot dogs and dad buying you your first glove so you could emulate your heroes.  Heroes like those memorialized in songs, heroes like The Mick, Willie and The Duke.
Of course [...]

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At any time in my adult life someone said to me that a new President would make his or her first major speech outside Washington in my backyard, the laughter might have been the end of me.
So I was stunned to hear that President Obama would be just about in my backyard Monday for a [...]

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