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The Road to Nashville
As the songs for my album "Road Tested" were falling into shape, it was clear that this record was going to lean more heavily on my deep...
Mapping Environmental Racism
After I left my work as Chief of Staff to a Congressman on Capitol Hill, I spent the better part of the 1990’s in the world of...
They Decided to Induct Me!
It was an honor to be inducted in the Massachusetts Country Music Hall of Fame this week. It honors the decade I spent with my group,...
Around About Now
A lot of wonderful things have happened since then. That energy company helped a lot of needy people. Joe decided to run for Congress and...
The Campaign and The Last Campaign
So once again, I made plans to play out my final Wheatstraw gigs, I flew out to LA to find a place to live – a great little bungalow in...
The Wheatstraw Days
In 1971, Tom and I moved to Boston and started a group we called Wheatstraw. Like in our Aspen days, we played a little bit of everything...
The Start of The End
For my last two years of high school, I went away to boarding school in Massachusetts. I fell into a band there pretty quickly but the...
DC & Culture Shock
It’s safe to say that the move from Dubuque to Washington was a pretty big change. It was a major international city, it was wildly more...
Dubuque & The Barnstormers
I grew up in Iowa. A Midwestern town like Dubuque in the 1950s was a pretty idyllic place. We walked to school, we played in the woods,...
Origin Story
I was born in Dubuque, Iowa in late 1950. Dubuque sits along the banks of the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois border. My father...