Article: Blast from the past is ready for second act

It's not rare, unfortunately, for a promising musician or band to burn out or fade away after early success. Most eventually move on to other pursuits if not dreams, other ways of giving meaning to their lives. Considerably less common is the musician who vanishes for the better part of a decade and - years after settling into an entirely different identity and new set of priorities - reemerges with some of the best songs he's ever written.

This is what happened to Tom "Satch" Kerans. His first Boston band, the Catalinas, went to the WBCN Rumble way back in 1987 (losing to Mark Sandman's pre-Morphine outfit, Treat Her Right), attracted major-label interest, and hammered away at the North ...

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