• Album Reviews,  Blog

    38 Special Milestone Album Review

    The band 38 Special released their first album in 21 years, Milestone, on the day I type this, September 19 of 2025.

    I preordered a signed copy of the CD more than a month earlier and received it on the day of release.

    As of this typing, I’m already on my second listen of the album.

    It’s a very good album.  Lots of rock, some melodic songs, lots of catchy, hooky parts, great singing and playing, and what can I say?  They still rock.

    Lead singer/songwriter/guitarist/founding member Don Barnes is the one original member still in the band, but he has a solid group of guys with him.  They include Jerry Riggs also on guitar/vocals, Bobby Capps on keyboards/vocals, Barry Dunaway on bass/vocals and Gary Moffatt on drums/vocals.

    I’m so glad 38 Special finally released another new album.

    I wish more of my favorite bands/artists still made albums.

    To me, if you’re a band or solo artist, you make albums.  Whether they sell or not, you make albums because again, that’s what you do.  Period.

    Thank you guys for another really good album and hopefully this will not be the last.

    Rock on forever 38 Special!!  And thank you for signing the new album too!!!!

  • Blog,  Book Reviews

    Slobberknocker: My Life In Wrestling By Jim Ross w/Paul O’Brien As Told To Scott E. Williams Book Review

    If you are a wrestling fan, you should probably know who Jim Ross, AKA Good Ol’ JR, is.

    He has been a fixture in wrestling since he started as a referee in 1974, and eventually becoming an announcer/commentator/interviewer/head of talent relations and so much more.

    For many, Jim Ross is the greatest wrestling announcer/commentator of all time.

    Slobberknocker:  My Life In Wrestling (w/Paul O’ Brien as told to Scott E. Williams, released in 2017) chronicles his life from his early days all the way to 1999 when he returned to wrestling after a second bout of Bell’s Palsy.

    Jim has two other books, but this is his first.

    And if you are a fan, you will not be disappointed.

    JR has a lot of stories, and I think since he has so many stories that it’s fitting he has three books up to this point.

    Check out this book.  No pun intended, but it is a real Slobberknocker as JR would say.

    And I’m glad to say I was able to buy a signed copy!!

    All the best always JR.