Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

Sunday pun

Two questions:

1. Where do you plant a shoe tree?

2. What kind of shoes grow on shoe trees?

Just asking.

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Pretzel boy in all his glory

If it's Saturday, it must be pretzel day with Dan at the Dutch market.

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Blues encore

Encore time is blues-cover time — Sam Jackson, Guitar Slim. This clip is unwatchable, but the sound gives a taste, I think.

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Ode to Lucinda

I never leave umtil the put on the house lights — and tonight it paid off. After a four-song encore of blues and rock that ended with her version of AC/DC's 'KIt's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll),” it appearred we were done. The crowd started filing out — including us.

I knew, however, that the lights remained dark, so I told Annie and Susan to wait — and, sure enough, Lucinda came back out and did a bluesy version of a song by someone she called “one of her favorite songwriters” — one of mine too — Bobbie Gentry. The lovely, scary gothic “Ode to Billie Joe” was a nice treat for the road.

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Guitars galore

“Unsuffer Me,” “Come On,” “Honey Bee” — ouch. Big-guitar blues.

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