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Big Band on Bus: A Tale of the Open, Go^%$mned Road (Part Deux)
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher Editor’s Note: The following events took place (really) on a recent Big Band road tour. All names have been changed—not to protect the innocent, but…
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Big Band on Bus: A Tale of the Open, Go^%$mned Road
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher Note: The following events took place (really) on a recent Big Band road tour. All names have been changed—not to protect the innocent, but to…
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Tressel, Tattoos & The Need to Belong
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher LONG ISLAND New York—(Weekly Hubris)—6/13/11—With the three-ring circus of media attention surrounding the Ohio State football program over the past weeks, it has become apparent…
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Have Trumpet, Will Travel (& Travel, and Travel)
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher “In a highway service station/Over the month of June/Was a photograph of the earth/Taken coming back from the moon/And you couldn’t see a city/On that…
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The Wrong of Spring, or DO Sweat It
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher LONG ISLAND New York—(Weekly Hubris)—4/11/11—Ahhh, spring. What could possibly be more universally welcomed than the return of warm weather, baseball, and the faint, glimmering hope…
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Remembering Buddy Morrow
This IS My Day Gig! by Hardin Butcher Long Island New York—(Weekly Hubris)—3/28/11—People often ask me how old I am. That either means that my cherubic face doesn’t match my withered sardonicism, or…