When Darius Degher texted me that he has a new album coming out, I cringed. I’ve really gotten into this true-crime podcast, and I knew that...
Taylor Harvey has been knocking around the local music scene since the 1990s but got a deservedly elevated profile when the Farmers had him open some...
It’s 2021. Like most, I’m emerging from my COVID chrysalis with new skills. House painting. Avocado tree-growing. I’ve even written a few songs. I’m not an...
Local guitarist Peter Sprague earned most his reputation playing jazz at a world-class level. But his musical interests are far ranging; recent recordings have found him...
The first Acoustic Alliance took place in December of 2004 at The Brick by Brick. The show presented a dozen songwriters performing 3 songs each “in...
Summer is the peak festival season for bluegrass lovers everywhere and we have one of the best festivals right here at the Antique Gas and Steam...
Hello Troubadourians! I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about this time, but Ozzy has died, and everyone is talking about it. Not that this...
For more than four decades, Kevin Koch supplied splash, sizzle, and swoosh from behind his drum kit for numerous bands in San Diego County. It didn’t...
One of the mainstays of folk music—at least the working-class school pioneered by Woody Guthrie—is singing the stories of folks on the edge of polite society,...
