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Back with a feeling: Boston on tour behind new studio album, its 6th in 38 years

photo Tom Scholz is Boston’s lead guitarist and organist.

Riverbend 2014June 6-14 • 21st Century Waterfront, Chattanooga, TNView in depth coverage

IF YOU GO• What: Boston• When: 9:15 p.m. tonight• Where: Coca-Cola Stage• Admission: Riverbend 9-day wristband ($50); one-day wristband ($26)TONIGHT’S SCHEDULECoca-Cola Stage• 9:15 p.m. — BostonBud Light Stage• 5:45 p.m. — The Black Cadillacs• 7 p.m. — Allen StoneVolkswagen Stage• 5:15 p.m. — Chattanooga Stars• 7:15 p.m. — Amber Fults and The Ambivalent LoversTVFCU Stage• 6 p.m. — The Von Wamp Experience featuring the 9th Street Stompers, Brian Ashley Jones & High ViscosityUnum Stage• 6:15 p.m. — The Bridget Kibbey Trio• 7:45 p.m. — Nikki Hill• 9:15 p.m. — The Family Stone

In 2008, Tommy DeCarlo traded in his orange apron for a microphone.

The transformation took DeCarlo from his job as a credit manager at a Home Depot in Charlotte, N.C., to center stage as the lead singer for Boston. And that’s where he’ll be tonight when Boston takes the Coca-Cola Stage at Riverbend.

It’s a Cinderella story for DeCarlo, 49, who says he got hooked on Boston’s music when he was 12. A self-taught musician, DeCarlo started singing when he was 6 or 7 years old. “I used to sing along to my parents’ eight-track tapes in the family station wagon,” he says.