Blues Traveler: Paramount Theatre, NYC

FOR BLUES TRAVELER, 1992 was a year to forget. An eager, improv-hungry, neo-retro band that long ago dubbed their endless cross-country trekking "On Tour Forever," BT retreated to their New York homebase following vocalist John Popper's debilitating motorcycle accident late last summer and cheered from the sidelines as road-warrior compatriots, the Spin Doctors, lit up the charts.