I remember hearing this song before seeing the video; it intrigued me. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i0rSWRSREs&w=560&h=315] I was fortunate enough to participate in a student exchange program in high school. I spent about a month in England. I was a bit older in years than my exchange partner and as an only child who’d never spent time in such close quarters with other young people (other than my two stints at summer camp, which were abysmal failures at socializing me), we didn’t get on so well. Thinking back, I am sure she and her parents went to great effort to make me…

A friend and colleague posted a thing on social media called ‘20 Albums That Made an Impact on Me’ and I thought I’d use it as a topic for this space, which has been feeling rather neglected of late. As Elisa said, not every post will have a story with it, but knowing me, it will … First up is Mad Daddys Cat Scratch Fever. If you know my story, this album (EP, if you want to get all technical about it) wasn’t about the music. It was about my dear friend, known here as guitarist Screamin’ Johnson. Outside the…