Friend Named Fred

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Sometimes people ask me, “Fred, why in the world would anyone want to deal with health insurance all day every day.”

While it is true that I do devote 50 hours each week to help make it easy for others to find the best possible health insurance for their needs, there are actually 168 hours in each week, and I am the sort who believes in getting the very the most out of the time I am given in life. When I answer the question above by sharing that I am also a freelance journalist with thousands of stories published by dozens of local and national publications, and a live music fanatic willing to travel the globe to see the best live music being performed on any given night (often attending 100 concerts each year) – sometimes people want to more. Particularly if they’re music fans.

Friend Named Fred is my monthly newsletter sharing news and views about some of the best live music I’ve been fortunate to hear.

The title of this newsletter is also the title of a feature column I’ve written for An Honest Tune magazine for a number of years. The phrase originally came from the song “Coconuts” by the band Widespread Panic. I had the good fortune of becoming very close friends with the band shortly after they formed, and would later write the band’s first newsletter, The Panicle. Since I was around the band so much in the early days of their career, it was a commonly held assumption that I was in fact the “friend named Fred” mentioned in the songs. While I wish I could claim that as true, the song was actually the first song ever written by John Bell, before the band had formed, and long before we met. However, the moniker has stuck with me over the years, and I’m proud to now count you amongst the many readers and friends I’ve grown to know and love over the years.

I hope you enjoy your Friend Named Fred, and I look forward reading your feedback.

Fred

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