Frente! at Triple R Performance Space, Melbourne (August 15, 2025)
Triple R’s Radiothon – Digging Deeper (Aug 15, 2025) Frente! Setlist Girl Most Beautiful Labour...
Day: August 27, 2025
Lettuce w/ BALTHVS at Liberty Hall, Lawrence KS (2025-08-22)
LETTUCE at Liberty Hall, Lawrence KS LETTUCE SETLIST Gold ToothEverything’s Gonna Be AlrightKrewe (w/BALTHVS)Insta-Classic >Purple...
Linkin Park at T-Mobile Center, Kansas City MO (2025-08-31)
LINKIN PARK SETLIST intro music: The Joker (Steve Miller Band song) (pre-show with From Zero...
I Wanna Learn a Love Song by Harry Chapin
Most casual listeners will only know Harry Chapin as the “Cat’s in the Cradle” musician, but the Grammy-winning and Hall of Fame inductee had written over 100 songs over 11 albums, until his death in 1981.
There’s no denying that “Cat’s in the Cradle” is Chapin’s signature song, and is relatable by anyone, who is too busy working to spend time with their family. Thanks to the hit single, Elektra Records was able to sell over 2.5 million copies of the 1974 album Verities and Balderdash.
All this was a little before my time, and I was gifted the album by my sixth-grade teacher, who was an avid fan. As the title suggests, this album contains important (vertities) and nonsense (balderdash) songs… in other words, a mishmash collection.
There are some gems on the record, including my personal favorite, “30,000 Pounds of Bananas”, which is much better when performed live.
The other song I liked is “I Wanna Learn a Love Song,” a song about Harry Chapin met his wife, Sandra. I didn’t know this at the time, and had always assumed that he got the idea from one of his passengers when he was a Taxi driver. That’s the case of “30,000 Pounds…”, which was a story he’s heard on a bus to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Melissa Etheridge / Indigo Girls at Starlight Theatre, Kansas City MO (2025-08-21)
MELISSA ETHERIDGE / INDIGO GIRLS at Starlight Theatre MELISSA ETHERIDGE SETLIST Bring Me Some WaterIf...
Mpls: September 24 to September 25, 2025
Minneapolis: September 24 to September 25, 2025:
Leonid & Friends at Fitzgerald Theater (Sep 24)
Radio Free Alice at 7th St Entry (Sep 24)
Deltron 3030 at Uptown Theater (Sep 24)
Makaya McCraven at Icehouse (Sep 25)
Los Lobos at the Minnesota State Fair (August 25, 2025)
Monday was Senior’s Day at the Minnesota State Fair, and there was no better band (Los Lobos) to play for this demographic than a group of guys that have been together for over fifty years. But that was later and there was still much to do.