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In addition to the radio show, Joe is putting the finishing touches on a Lowell cable TV show, Local Anesthetic, which will be featuring live, in-studio performances and interviews from some of the Mill City's growing list of original artist musicians.
Next Thursday, October 15th, local tune smith Melvern Taylor and His Fabulous Meltones will be trekking down to the MBR studios for a live, on-air performance and the following Thursday, Jen Kearney will be doing the same. And once again, the Greater Boston area will be discovering something many of us already know: Lowell is a musical hot bed, a bona fide breeding ground, producing some of the best songwriters and musicians up and down the East Coast.
Tune in at 88.1FM or access WMBR on line at wmbr.mit.edu.
A few weeks back I headed to the One World Coffee House in Essex to celebrate with some old friends the release of their latest CD Bienvenue. Having played with two of the four band members some twenty years ago, I was invited on stage to sing some harmonies and play a little guitar. In an awkward moment, I declined the invitation. As anticlimactic as it was, within seconds of the start of the song, I knew I had made the right decision, my friend mistakenly thinking we had performed the song back in the day. I would have been lost.
Last night at the Bull Run in Shirley, I was comfortably sipping my pint of Wachusett Ale, basking in the glow of singer/songwriter 
