The Allman Brothers Band has always been one of my favorites and I have attended the members’ concerts in their various configurations right up until March of 2020, also at Madison Square Garden, for The Brothers 50th anniversary show, which also happens to be the last concert of any kind that I have attended since the pandemic shut down live music as we once knew it. Since then I have discovered YouTube concerts to help keep my live music fix satisfied but I have been unable to get onboard the live-streaming situation thus far. I just read that Coachella, scheduled for April, 2021 in Southern California, has been canceled again due to the pandemic. I have rented a house in Newport, Rhode Island in hopes that the Newport Folk Festival which was canceled last year might still somehow take place in July, 2021. The New Orleans Jazz Fest has been postponed again from April of this year until October, 2021 so I have taken a leap of faith and booked an Airbnb in New Orleans as we were supposed to attend the canceled festival last April, 2020. I am also holding on to my Jones Beach Theatre concert tickets for the postponed concerts from last summer and I have tickets for New York Mets opening day which I seriously doubt that our embattled Governor Cuomo will authorize a full house for. Who knows what the future holds but in the meantime stay well and rock on!

Just Ain’t Easy

GQ