Tommy C

Everybody's got a couple of these: Name a band or an artist that you pretty much can't stand (easy!). What do you do when a song comes along by 'em that you actually like? It's a classic rock conundrum is what it is. Oh, and One-Hit Wonders don't count.

It's only a guaranteed lifetime position with implications for generations to come, so ya better have some appropriate tuneage ready...

Anyone remember an old comic strip called "There Oughtta Be A Law"? Well, this is kinda sorta like that...maybe. --- For starters, "your" is what's called a determiner, as in "What is your name?" or "Your Mother Should Know". "You're" is short for "you are", also known as a contraction, as in "You're My Best Friend". They actually mean two different things, so try and get it right. Words matter folks.

Once again, my wife and I have no idea where this came from, but after we served it for company, everybody wanted the recipe to take home. How can you not love something with "Dump-And-Bake" in its name?

If you're a Dad, you've (hopefully) been asked, "What do you want to eat on Father's Day?". I want to grill up these burgers, inspired by one our favorite Food Network chefs, the late Carl Ruiz. These are so insanely tasty, they've become part of the regular rotation.

Another "Lost and Found" pearl from the bottomless 3x5 cardholder. This one, though, was on a folded up piece of paper, clearly (and poorly) torn out from your basic school notebook. Handwritten printing, not cursive, in extremely faded light blue ink. We think it came from a friend of a friend that our oldest daughter used to baby-sit for.

We're still sorting out the "box from Hell" and all of the (literally) hundreds of recipes that have accumulated over the last 40 years. An overdue project, yes, but the fun part still is discovering various index cards and crumpled paperwork and not having any idea whatsoever as to where it came from or who gave it to you and when, etc.

We’re looking forward to Tommy C's annual broadcast of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” at high noon on Thanksgiving Day! On the Blimp turntable, the original WBLM Litchfield Trailer Vinyl copy will be spinning in it's entirety. Thought I’d hook you up with the piece that ran on CBS This Morning a few years back.

We hope you are enjoying the 2016 edition of the Best of the Blimp from A to Z. It's week number two and we still have a looonnnng way to go. This is our 26th annual jaunt through our archives. One of the largest collections of Rock and Roll you'll find anywhere...we...

Tommy C got to catch up with Heartbreaker Benmont Tench before the sold out show in Portland tonight. Benmont is not only an original Heartbreaker, but has his own amazing solo career as well as having played with everyone from Johnny Cash to the Rolling Stones...

Tommy C is starting off this week's trip into the BLM archives with two very interesting pieces of vinyl.