by Kevin Burton What if your big day got overshadowed every year by the biggest day of all? What if the season to be jolly also brought your birthday? This is probably not just a problem for Christmas Day babies. I would guess any birthday between about Dec. 22 and 27 or …
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My ABCs: A Is For Appreciate
by Kevin Burton When I determined to write about appreciation I turned to the dictionary for help, but you wouldn’t have to. Appreciation is like that key spice in your favorite stew. If it’s there it fills everything it touches with a flavor that keeps you coming back for more. If it is …
Airline To Fire Unvaccinated Workers
by Kevin Burton Almost 600 workers for United Airlines now face termination for not complying with the company’s Covid 19 vaccination requirement, according to published reports. “The vast majority of its 67,000 US staff have supplied proof of vaccination, which was required by Monday,” according to a report on the BBC website. …
Fantasyland: When You’re Hot You’re Hot
by Kevin Burton In Mexico, when I was there, they called it “buen camino.” In English that means good road, or good path. It’s what you talk about when things are going well. “Tu vas por buen camino,” roughly translated means you’ve got it going on. Singer Jerry Reed might translate …
A 1972 One-Hit, One-Rhyme Wonder
by Kevin Burton Because mine is a songwriter’s household we have “what rhymes with’ as one of our buzzwords. Buzzphrases I guess that should be. Example: My granddaughter Willow is spoiled. So it’s “Oh my goodness can’t believe how spoiled she is…what rhymes with spoiled?” “Coiled, boiled, foiled..” and so on. Got …
A Moment To Savor With Gerry Rafferty
by Kevin Burton The hit sniffers at United Artists wanted the title track from Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 smash album “City To City” to be the first song released as a single. Rafferty knew better, successfully spoke up for the sonic masterpiece “Baker Street” as the first single and the rest is history. …
“Grandpa Kev” Just Doesn’t Sound Right
by Kevin Burton My wife drove like a grandma ever before she was one. I said this to her in person long before I said it to you in print and I assured her it was no putdown. In fact I mean it as the highest of compliments. What does a grandma …
Little Sis Had Her Day, Did It Her Way
by Kevin Burton It was years after the fact when he told the story, but the anger was still there in his voice. Apparently someone in obstetrics at the Minot Air Force Base suggested that my father could, or maybe should, allow my newborn sister Patricia to die. This was before she …
Last Echoes From The Brilliant Rafferty
by Kevin Burton Thanks to his daughter Martha, we have a new studio album from Gerry Rafferty, ten years after his death. Parlophone Records released “Rest In Blue” on Friday. It’s a revamping of the songs he was working on at the time of his death. For dedicated Rafferty fans it’s a …
Going To Music School With Alison Trelfa
By Kevin Burton Twice in her life Alison Trelfa has worked as a music teacher. Some of her advice on a recent zoom call has me going to school. Trelfa is a blind singer/songwriter from Middleborough, England. I wrote about her and her self-released album Decades Of Creation Saturday and Sunday on Page …
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