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  • U2 Experience Pod Update

    U2 Experience Pod Update

    If you follow “A Song & A Friend,” you’ll have been seeing an episode series called “The U2 Experience.” Maybe you’ve listened to it some, if so, thank you. My co-hosts are John Drury, Todd Bushong, and Erik Fisher. John, Todd, and Erik and I became close friends in the summer of 1998, during college,…

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  • On the Verge EP

    On the Verge EP

    What’s new is old, what’s old is new. This EP contains 4 songs that were tracked in February of 2009, and put on my DIY album “Serenade for a Living Room.” The process of remastering “Serenade…” was not unlike refinishing a piece of battered wooden furniture, like an antique table top or a cabinet. The…

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  • AS&AF pod blog: Michael Pancini

    AS&AF pod blog: Michael Pancini

    The first time I met Michael Pancini, in person, for we had connected on MySpace was at a Bottle Rocket Blue gig in a dive bar in Hebron, Indiana in early 2005. A mutual friend Adam Lee Roney, opened the night. Mike and Jill (not yet married) were at a table drinking hot tea from…

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  • Pod Blog: Meanwhile/I Will Return by DA

    Pod Blog: Meanwhile/I Will Return by DA

    I recently posted two “When a song is a friend…” themed episodes to my show: A Song & A Friend. Each episode features a song by the band Daniel Amos (or “da”.) Click for “I Will Return” Episode. Click for “Meanwhile” Episode. Let’s take each song in turn: “Meanwhile” by Daniel Amos from the 2001…

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  • All the Weary (Feels)

    All the Weary (Feels)

    “All the weary world awaits you, when you’re on your own…” Last year, “All the Weary World” was in my top 3 streamed songs. I started writing it in the summer of 2009. 15 years ago…long before: 2025: I binged watched Ted Lasso in the basement 2024: I was the “best music cha” ever. 2023:…

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  • My Life My Heart

    My Life My Heart

    “On New Year’s Eve I held a light and I held it high…exposing awkward dances…” A few weeks ago, I lent an old blazer of mine to my son who is a senior in high school. When he put it on, I saw the breast pocket was pronounced. I have a habit of putting papers…

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