In the past week one of the biggest blessings to come down the pike in awhile is the joy that I’ve experienced in discovering the songs...
Dawn Mitschele looks as though she is at peace. Sitting outside a bustling coffee shop on the west side of Coast Highway 101 in Encinitas during...
In the June 2011 issue of the San Diego Troubadour, I profiled the father and son behind one of the most compelling musical stories I’ve ever...
Switch on a TV, and the programming is nearly wall-to wall-karaoke shows, enormously popular contests full of marginally talented, aspiring young Mariah and hat-act wannabes, warbling...
Tom Shaw walked into Folk Arts Rare Records, back in 1970 looking for guitar strings (which I didn’t carry). Now I’d already had experience at that...
Many seemingly reasonable Americans are increasingly concerned with what they perceive as a diminution of liberties, such diminutions instigated to serve either the national security or...
I don’t know if it was sampled directly from the Beatles White Album but the jet airliner at the head of the new Greg Friedman LPÂ Can’t...
It’s important to have goals. How can you build or create anything without first envisioning it, imagining it, wanting it? Yet clinging too tightly to a...
Tolan Shaw is about to release one of the best local “songwriter” records I’ve heard in a number of years. His self-titled debut is a warm,...
