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...
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...
Studying music and advancing as an artist has always been my goal. Through this journey I’ve realized that I want to create and provide a platform...
Barry Alfonso and I interviewed Tom Waits in the lobby of the Little American Westgate back in the ’70s; he was wearing a ratty bathrobe, slippers...
The Troubadour lost our friend Larry Murray in May. Most people around here remember Larry from the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, led by Ed Douglas. We got...
Eight singer-songwriters are invited each month to share their music at a song circle hosted by Barry Hill and Bonnie Nicholls at the Ould Sod in...
It’s Pride month, San Diego! Well, last month was officially Pride Month, but for some reason San Diego celebrates in July, so the Troub tapped everyone’s...
Quietly published last summer with little to no fanfare, Cecile Picou’s dual biography (Apex Blues) of New Olreans’ Jimmie Noone and his son, San Diego’s Jimmy...
“It’s Scottish bagpipes and old-time fiddling. It’s Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It’s blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound.” These are Bill...
