In 1996, I was determined to do whatever I could to get out of a gig. Specifically, it was a concert at LA’s Museum of Tolerance,...
Judy Forman hurries from table to table, checking on the breakfasts of the outdoors diners. It’s Sunday, and the Big Kitchen is packed. She pauses ever...
What is it that makes Justin Townes Earle so unique? Even as he carries two names that could easily weigh him down–and maybe it has in...
Dogma = the death of creativity. – Anonymous Tribe (as defined by Merriam-Webster): a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents,...
The acoustic bass guitar bears a shape that hints back to the early Hofner model played by Paul McCartney when the Beatles hit it big. A...
As an amateur musician, I got a call several years ago for an afternoon gig. A party, a wedding, I really can’t remember what the event...
It’s tough growing up Finnish-American. When the other kids had relatives named John and Jane and Fred and Nancy, mine had names like Kirsikka and Minttu...
Dave Sawyer– given the musical moniker “Doktor” by no less than [the late] Hot Rod Harris–is leaving San Diego for the sometimes greener, sometimes whiter, and...
Any musicians out there looking to hone their craft will want to check out Guitar Workshop Plus, taking place on the campus of California State University...
