Wayne Howe

Little Big Time 
The Little Big Time show includes the original collection along with a mix of fun covers from Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Waylon Jennings, Wille Nelson, Jimmy Buffet, Kenny Chesney and other favorites.  It’s a big sound easily set up to match all size venues.

Band members include Wayne Howe, vocals and guitar; Amiee Nichols, vocals and light percussion; John Lannon on the drums and harp, and DeeJay Dav on lead guitar, piano, bass, and banjo. Little Big Time is available for clubs, festivals, parties and special events.

The Big Time Collection

The “Big Time” original collection is an infusion of musical transcendence in which Wayne Howe the song writer, vocalist and musician seeks to develop himself into a complete music maker.  A word smith who puts his stories to songs, there is a wonderful balance of music and meaning to each song, with each song coming with a story that has both a beginning and an ending, and often touches the listener with more than a light finger.

As the song, “Second Chance Man” laments, this is Howe’s second go round with music.  He left the music business behind right after college and became an award winning journalist covering stories for newspapers and magazines and they took him from one end of the country to other.  But during these travels, Howe never stopped playing and song writing and would often play out anywhere they would have him, “just me, my guitar and a microphone,” as he often tells his audience.  

The song “Big Time”  tells the story of “champagne afternoons”  and “taxis to the moon”  all inspired by trekking around France for an entire summer with only a guitar, backpack and a yellow pad of paper for writing down songs. 

Other self penned songs tell the story of life and love, and the price one pays when it ends, as is the lament in “You Took the Dream, Too” when feelings can suddenly change and leave a powerful emotional vacuum, or the fire that burns long after the flame has gone out as portrayed in  “You’re the One.”

The events of September 11, 2001 led to the inspirational “Soldiers Hallelujah”   where the lyrics challenge us to “still stand tall.”   And another picture of life is shown in “Hard Times” where even if you survive the “school of hard knocks” it’s harder still to leave the one that loves you for someone else.

Howe writes about the spiritual in “Where Love Lives”   where the song says “we can make easily, if you follow me,”   and again, when sometimes only solitude will heal the soul as in “Came to Remember” where the lyrics allow the mountains and snow to help one forget.

The song “Whiskey” tells the story of an awakening of a lonely soul to the realization that sometimes one’s life story is written before one is even born. The face in the mirror tells the whole story even if it's not the image one wants to see.

The fun begins with the popular “Baby’s Dancing on a Stage” where the lyrics put the girl next door  -- a star in her own right – up on a stage, much to the consternation of her laughingly, confused boyfriend.  A motorcycle man, Howe wrote “Back on the Road Again” for a group of friends that share his enthusiasm for the open road, but the song hints suggestively that the “real love now is waiting in Tennessee.”

“What was it you said” is the story of the price one pays to seek fortune and fame as told through the eyes of a sailor, inspired by the sailing culture and beauty of Newport, RI.   “One More Time” captures the weighty moment when one lover realizes he or she is the one still hanging on, when the other lover has already decided to go.  “Middle of the Night”   carries the promise that time, will in fact heal all, but that the weight of love loss will never go completely away.  But as the song says, that is okay and it is really something to be celebrated. 

For those dancers who enjoy the El Paso, “Achin for You More Everyday” will prove a fun song.  It’s about a poor cowboy who is scared legless by his “hot dress and high heeled shoe” girl.   “Memories” is a modern country rocker that holds your hand right at that moment before you fall asleep, “when you feel all those memories you keep.”   “Streets” is about the flip side of city life, when one discovers how quickly a town can get small when your old lover keeps showing up everywhere.  “Free From Your Spell” celebrates the moment the chains of love come off  and one is ready to leave the witchy woman behind, climb back on the horse and happily whistle away:  “I’m free and I’m gone, thankfully.”

Howe arrived at this musical juncture via his life travels from homes in Connecticut, Florida, Vermont, Maine and Boston.  He discovered that the vibrant, creative music scene in the Boston metropolitan area -- where young modern country fans are numerous -- is providing an encouraging proving ground for Little Big Time.  Popular Country Radio WKLB in Boston helps country fans here prove they can sell out a stadium in less than a day when big name country comes to town. 

Little Big Time has recorded the songs on this web site live at various venues in Boston and Maine.  The band hopes you enjoy the songs.  As Howe often says, “it’s all good!”