Rick Watrous

Rick Watrous’s 1st concert encounter was a Ricky Nelson display at Atlantic Town in the past due ’50s. As he was still really small, all he remembers viewing was a ocean of teenage women’ hip and legs shimmying towards the beat. Spectacular in its method. In the past due ’60s he actually got bitten from the music bug-first rock and roll, after that jazz, his flavor growing ever outward. Preferred musical memories consist of: hearing Hendrix’s Are You Experienced as well as the Mothers’ PANIC soon after they arrived; viewing Hendrix, Rashaan Roland Kirk and Kilometers Davis in a variety of concerts; participating in a double costs of the Deceased Kennedys and Sunlight Ra at San Francisco’s Mabuhay Backyards; and witnessing a piano showdown between Keith Jarrett and Thelonious Monk at Lincoln Middle. It had been Monk’s last concert; he retired undefeated. Having journeyed and lived about the united states, Watrous established a stating, “Home is where in fact the stereo system is.” Composing skillfully since 1982, Rick Watrous provides written a huge selection of released content: columns, features, information tales, and film and music testimonials for a number of publications, like the Concord Monitor, Rockingham State Papers, The Derry Information, NH Information, New Hampshire Situations, Sweet Potato, as well as the Union Leader. Nevertheless, it really is his continuing column in Concord’s Weekend Monitor which has brought him one of the most identification. Since 1993 Watrous’s House & Family members columns have investigated various areas of modern lifestyle. In 1995 the brand new Hampshire Press Association honored one of is own essays, “AN EASIER WAY to Die,” Greatest Feature Tale of the entire year. Watrous’s recently finished book-length manuscript, Shadowdad, enlarges upon that content. Watrous expectations that its publication will donate to the nationwide debate over loss of life with dignity problems. Watrous’s preferred hobby is normally collecting and hearing music. Ahhh, the beautiful globe of music. Desert Isle Picks IN THE Silent Method (Mls Davis) Sort of Blue (Mls Davis) Before and After Technology (Brian Eno) Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) Are You Experienced (Jimi Hendrix) The Limelight Child (Capt. Beefheart) Speaking in Tongues (Speaking Heads) Thelonious Himself (Thelonious Monk) Graceland (Paul Simon) Henry the Human being Fly (Richard Thompson) Volunteered Slavery (Rashaan Roland Kirk) Method to Blue (Nick Drake) Just the Unhappy (Frank Sinatra)