There are only a few, I believe, ‘prerequisites’ for being an open mic host, and none of them are what you would immediately imagine: tenacity, stamina,...
I’m writing this on the evening of May 20th. I’m wondering whether I should bother going any further than this. Tomorrow, May 21st, is the Rapture,...
The walls of Martin Grusin’s Del Mar home are crowded with mementos. Photographs of family and entertainers, many of them autographed, hang next to certificates or...
It was an old converted movie theater in the L.A. suburb of Compton, built over in the front to look like an old barn. I never...
Her Kentucky mountain ballad voice stilled by a major stroke last December, Jean Ritchie is no longer able to communicate. But her inestimable recorded legacy of...
Of all the tasks set before a fledgling or veteran recording engineer, none can seem more daunting, frustrating, or elusive as capturing a great drum sound....
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. There were many great days and many not so...
