Articles by Scott Saalman

My creative touchstone and good friend Jen Chapin will be in Hamilton County this Friday to perform during the “Harry Chapin at 80” retrospective concert at the Palladium in Carmel….

Sometimes I must remind myself of the “why.” Delete that … not sometimes, many times. Still self-doubting after all these years. The writer’s plague. My own private dark ages. About…

When I was a kid, my family used to camp at Lincoln Boyhood State Park in southern Indiana. I looked forward to these excursions for one reason: Angie F, who…

“The fantastic trip” that was Jimmy Buffett For the first half of this month, I found myself immersed in all things Jimmy Buffett (JB). That tends to happen to fans…

Upon final reflection, Jimmy Buffett was my sun. For 45 years, his tropically themed music delivered to me a sunshine state of mind. My mental migration to Margaritaville is rooted…

“Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” -Henry IV Evenings,…

Let’s begin with the Foreigner fallout boys, those rock and roll purists who understandably disagreed with the positive things I wrote about my first Foreigner concert at Ruoff “I Still…

I just checked another box on my 1970s Super Group Concert List. This summer, I saw Foreigner. “Feels Like The First Time” was a cherished 8-track tape of mine in…

Her voice greeted me in the cleaning supplies aisle. “Hi, Scott,” she said, as I squatted at the bottom shelf reading Drano directions. Her voice was vaguely familiar, not enough…