Paul Siegel – Near Nyack

Truth be told, as much as I fantasize about copping a persona like Tom Waits,  I’m a middle class kid from suburbia. I like to say I’m from the Hudson Valley; it sounds cooler. I AM from the Hudson Valley, just not quite far enough away from Manhattan to really be upstate; though my cousins…

Words and Music and Then and Now

I consider myself one of the last baby boomers; asleep in my cradle as an assassin tore camelot asunder, legally overt segregation in its final years. My peers and I were born at the end of an epoch of innocence, and entered into a culture of anything but. One of my earliest musical memories is Woodstock… I think. I was…