He hated the city when he moved here in 1981, but he attributes this to the fact that most of his friends hung out in Towson. 'But especially for singers.' He remembers the gritty New York scene of the time, recalling the storied CBGB and OMFUG club, where he remembers seeing 'all that goth stuff,' but he was never drawn to it the way he is now drawn to the nightlife of Baltimore. 'I have a fetish for women, in general,' he says.

After his marriage ended, he was working in New Jersey and fell in love with a Juilliard-trained singer in a country band, and they moved to Greenwich Village in the late '70s. For 20 years, he was a vice president with AAA. He began working as an insurance sales manager after his service ended. After high school, he joined the Airforce. 'I can still remember my mom and dad at dinner, figuring out how to scrounge up the $400 to go there.'Īlthough he never attended college, he developed his signature 'Joe College preppy' look. Nelson, who claims that the actress Grace Kelly was his babysitter when he was an infant, grew up in Philadelphia, in a neighborhood he likens to Hampden-working-class and Irish Catholic-but he went to school in a neighborhood more like Roland Park.

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