Thanks, nieces Caitlyn and Elizabeth, for your Yanks/Sox tickets, available because of a conflict with the Kenny Chesney concert at Gillette Stadium Boston Herald concert review. His Poets & Pirates Tour also features LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban and, yes, that 'ol country singer, Sammy Hagar.

Lost track of them, found in The Herald:
STEVE CROPPER & FELIX CAVALIERE “Nudge It Up a Notch” (Stax): B
Paired in Nashville by producer Jon Tiven, the two ’60s icons prove soul never grows old. Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s and Otis Redding, is still nimble-fingered, while the organ and vocals of Rascals frontman Cavaliere remain “Groovin’ ” sharp. Teaming with Tiven to write the 12 songs on “Nudge It Up a Notch” (in stores Tuesday), they don’t get very creative, but do knock out pleasant pop and r & b that would have sounded at home in the Stax catalog 40 years ago. Download: “One of These Days.” (Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, with the Cowsills, appearing tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Hatch Shell, free.)