Things seemed almost stabile. Like a storm that blows, bullies, and blusters, then suddenly subsides, I was cautiously hopeful. Before the band (22 Kings) showed up...
The bygone days of the Albatross, Elario’s, and Chuck’s Steak House, where one could hear mainstream jazz back in the 1970s and ’80s, are long gone,...
I first heard about Roscoe Holcomb sometime in the early 1950s when the Sign of the Sun Bookstore in San Diego ran a series of films...
Ypsitucky is a new group formed by El Monte Slim’s Ian Trumbull. While the Slim are on temporary hold, Michigan transplant Trumbull added Slim’s rhythm section...
Once a year, usually in October, the bluegrass world gathers in Raleigh, North Carolina for the annual International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass Conference. There...
Chickenbone Slim. Perhaps the most essential question is this: Why? The answer: because there needs to be a Chickenbone, of course. And he needs to play...
Sara and Sean Watkins — co-founders of the Grammy-winning acoustic trio Nickel Creek, who were raised literally in the bluegrass scene of North County — have...
Members of the local blues community will know Chickenbone Slim (aka Larry Teves; see feature story this month) and his band the Biscuits either in their...
I don’t speak Spanish, But I understand everything when I’m dancing! –“I Don’t Speak Spanish” by Bobby Matos and John Santos Alvin Toffler’s got nothing on...
