Odds and Sods

Heard "City of New Orleans" sung by the late Steve Goodman, who wrote the song, on some folkie radio show during my day-before-Thanksgiving drive out to the Berkshires. Arlo Guthrie had a hit with the tune. Anyway, was inspired to take a picture of a train (which the song is about--except it's about a passenger train) while in an icy parking lot at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. The white stuff is snow, which was on the ground pre-Thanksgiving out there. The picture was shot not far from the legendary Hoosac Tunnel which some say is haunted, and may be even the most haunted place in New England! Nearly two hundred people died drilling the tunnel in the 1800's. For more scary stuff about it click here.

Now more odds and sods (with apologies to The Who):

• Was just stumbling around the Internet and came across a review of Cynthia Lennon's new book "John" on VillageVoice.com. As you probably know, Cynthia was John's first wife and is the mother of Julian Lennon. Cynthia was there at the beginning, long before the Beatles, long before Yoko. Read an excerpt: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8802-1774227,00.html#
• Wrote a little review of Livingston Taylor's new CD, which was available at his recent show at the Narrows. You can see that review by clicking here.
• Barry Cowsill mystery continues. Now maybe his voice on a phone in Newport. NBC 10 has the story here.
• Nice to see that comments on the blog are picking up! Maybe we're finally building an audience!
• Case you don't receive the weekly email from the Narrows, here's the latest info regarding our deficit: Thanks to everybody who came out to the shows and all those who donated to the Narrows. We were able to raise another $700 through donations, thus reducing our deficit to $3,000.
• See you at Grace Potter's show Saturday night? Going to be fab! Meet her and the band at www.gracepotter.com. She's very hot on the circuit, recently doing some gigs with Trey what's-his-name from the defunct Phish.