I can recall my elementary school days with nearly day-to-day precision. One day Mrs. Merrill introduced a new word with the first really fun, evocative definition...
San Diego’s Blaze Eisner’s 2011 EP, An Unquiet Mind was acoustic-based soft-rock music with bass and drum bottom; several tunes blended his clever lyrical messages with...
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but there’s a bootleg recording from 1973 of Jack Tempchin (with his friend Tom Waits) performing a song called...
A case can be made for a thriving subgenre of emo-folk music. Combining lyrical obsessions with themes like social isolation, depression, suicide, and all manner of...
Fingerstyle guitar, a traditional technique of plucking multiple strings with multiple fingers, is almost magical. The simplest tunes and compositions that may fall flat were they...
Personality. We all have it. A unique set of distinctive traits and characteristics that define us (at least outwardly) for the world around us. Extroverts, introverts,...
The Lacemakers’ mission statement is “Interlacing Celtic, traditonal, and original music for all occasions.” They are Heloise Love, Miss Darla, and Kim Donaldson, and while the...
In the March issue of the Troubadour, Sarah Maisel’s superb ukulele disc Have Uke Will Travel earned well-deserved praise. Tim Coffman played a big part in...
August was Summergrass month in San Diego, and what a great bluegrass festival it was! As noted in last month’s cover story, this was the 10...
