My old friend and former bandmate, Pete Larson, moved to Kenya a few years back to oversee a number of public health related research projects. And, while there, he fell in love with the country’s culture and music. Now, like a good academic, he’s doing his best to document and preserve what he can, starting […]
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A few days ago, I told you that my old friend and former bandmate, Dr. Peter Larson, had announced that he would be launching a new record label in Kenya and releasing songs that he’d written for my Ypsilanti-based AM radio show, The Saturday Six Pack. Well, it looks as though he’s kept his word. […]
One of the most gratifying things about doing my weekly radio show is that, in a roundabout way, it’s been responsible for getting my old friend and bandmate Pete Larson writing songs again after deciding a decade or so ago to walk away from the music industry, and the record label he’d spent 20 years […]
