working on that …. A long time ago, when Apple calendar came out, that sort of saved people like me, because I ' m also a full-time college professor from late August to May, along with doing film and television music. I also have a very supportive family. When I ' m on the road, I usually have about two days off a week, and I have to put a lot of stuff in those two days to keep up with my academic career as well as my scoring career. I couldn ' t do it by myself, absolutely not a chance. Our son, Neal, works with the band. He does a whole bunch of stuff. If all of a sudden one of our crews can ' t come, he ' ll just jump in the truck and come out and do that. That makes my life even easier. I do complain, but I shouldn ' t, because I have freedom, and my wife and my son have total freedom to do whatever they want, whenever they want to. So, in three words, it ' s all good.
At this point, the closest you’ ll be to the Berkshires when you tour is the Mohegan Sun, where many of our readership go to take a little break, for the casino as well as the live entertainment. Kevin, are you’ re pretty connected to the Berkshires?
Kevin: We played in Great Barrington tons of times and at Barrington Stage. One hundred percent, I know the Berkshires. I ' ve skied many, many times at Catamount and Butternut, taking my kids there. My wife is a Sedgwick, so that’ s also a connection to Stockbridge.
Yes, and there are reunions over at the Sedgwick home that your family attends.
Kevin: Yep.
Michael, how does your experience in film scoring influence your songwriting with The Bacon Brothers. Are they connected?
Ballad Of The Brothers is The Bacon Brothers ' 12th album.
Michael: No, it really doesn ' t. The only way it ever connects is if I ' m writing a string chart for our band, which I do very, very occasionally. It’ s just a whole different thing. And as Kevin
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