October 7, 2015 | My Desultory Blog

Music: Run-Around from the 90s by Blues Traveler

RichC | October 7, 2015

Usually when posting about a song I’m listening to or talking about music, I drift back about four decades … surprise … this time I’m only going back TWO decades! The jam band Blues Traveler recorded the top 40 song “Run-Around” in 1994 which was written by their frontman John Popper … and this pop-like […]

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