Charles “Keep A Knockin” Connor, original drummer for Little Richard, created the unique “Choo Choo Train” style of successive eighth notes with a loud back beat...
by Steve Thorn Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge...
This is a story of how music has developed through time as a human art form. It expresses our deepest human feelings and gives us a...
As I turn another year older — just a couple of clicks now away from 60 — I grow more and more convinced that the single-most...
…And now for something completely different: an instrumental soul/funk band that records its songs on seven-inch, 45 RPM vinyl — and makes music that more than...
Grab your hat, your sunscreen, your folding chair, and get ready for the West Coast’s premier bluegrass festival: Summergrass. From Friday August 14 through Sunday August...
“It’s ‘Monkey Wards’,” I tell him. No respectable six-year-old calls it “Montgomery Wards!” “I have a theory that’s what caused it,“Alan says. “When I fell off...
The recipe: take authentic West Virginia bluegrass roots, add the musical sensibilities of a fifth-generation Californian. Blend thoroughly, obtaining original genre-jumping songs, then add four other...
