Last night we played in Atlantic City, the first show of the last leg of the summer tour. That’s a very complicated description. I have never been to the actual Atlantic City… the beach and the boardwalk. I have been to the casinos before. My first publisher, Irwin, was quite the gambler in his day. He would arrange for a helicopter to pick the two of us up at a landing strip on the West Side Highway and we would zoom to AC and I would watch him gamble. As an apprentice electrician and part time songwriter I did not have a great deal of discretionary income to risk on the vagaries of the playing cards. (more…)