It’s February 23, 2021, and at about 2:33 pm EST today I found out that a good friend of mine passed. Jones Purcell. Maybe you knew him, too.
If you lived in the Delaware area from 1980 to about 1995 there’s a good chance you would have heard of him even if you hadn’t followed any of the goings on in the music scene in that area.
In the spring of 1996, Big Shout staff writer Tom Dougherty pitched a story idea for our April Fool’s issue. Everyday on his way to work, he drove by a non-descript, industrial-looking building that had a sign posted at its …
For anyone who ever hung out at the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, DE from 1989 until about 1999, you’ll be sad to hear that a prominent fixture in that area’s local scene passed away of cancer earlier this week. …
I don’t remember the first time I ever met or the last time I ever saw Art Callahan, but there’s no doubt it was at 845 N. Tatnall St. in Wilmington, DE… the site of the Barn Door. I think …