It’s Thanksgiving, 1976, and you’re lucky enough to be at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom for The Band’s farewell concert extravaganza. They’re in more than fine form,...
Monthly columnist Scott Paulson would like to invite San Diego Troubadour readers to the 21st Annual Toy Piano Festival, which is being held as a Facebook...
Steve Nichols is a commanding musician. The guitarist has performed with just about everybody. Among the top stars with whom he has shared the stage are...
Considering this list, I’ve been attracted again to “Queen Jane Approximately,” one of Dylan’s best “list-making” songs. One the sharpest songs on his 1965 album Highway...
In early March of 2020, Tim Flannery and his band, the Lunatic Fringe, were having a blast. They were in Northern California playing a gig and...
The sad news is that Byron Berline, fiddler extraordinaire, and John Hickman, outstanding banjo player, have both passed away. Byron Berline died from a stroke at...
Russ Hamm and I are starting in on the work of transferring the material in my library to digital format. As I told you previously, the...
Ken Lehnig’s newest music is a 15-track set of devotional songs, 13 of them originals. I Can Hear You Now! was put together by the same...
It is heartbreaking to be writing a second article for the Troubadour in just a few months about yet another San Diego linchpin, lost in another...