Keyboard-pop artist Chris Carpenter has already made a splash on the local scene, winning a songwriting contest and garnering SDMA nominations in both 2012 and 2013....
The enormously talented (14 Grammy nominations, three awards) and prodigiously productive (The Low Highway is his 15th studio album, in addition to acting, writing novels, and...
My BFF Steve Morton and I used to play a lot of music together. After one sparsely attended coffeehouse gig many years ago a guy in...
Hello Troubadourians! I recently had an email conversation with a reader — I’ll call him “Adam” — answering his questions about signal chain order and advising...
It doesn’t matter what the brand name is, the revival/retro look and sound of Bart Mendoza’s Secret Society continues unabated, as it pretty much has done...
“I’m good at what I do.” Sitting outside the Kensington library one recent morning, Gabriel Sundy said this in an unguarded moment as he was trying...
The press materials for AnDa Union, a Mongolian folk group coming to UCSD on October 27, contain the following legend about the origin of the two-stringed...
Maybe I should start a self-contained gripe-of-the-month section in “Hosing Down,” stick it at the very beginning, and have done with it, making it easier for...
Look at the numbers, that’s all I ask Who’s at the head of every class? Do you really think they’re smarter than you are? They just...
