Michael Peter Smith has been a hero of mine ever since I first heard his song, “The Dutchman,” performed by a couple guys in a bar...
The way Larry Bausch sees it, the Celtic music revival has its place as an important turning point. And he should know. When he is not...
The most significant entertainment event ever held in San Diego? It’s easily the Beatles appearance at Balboa Stadium on August 28, 1965. Even in a city...
He’s an artist who appeared on the folk scene in the Northeastern folk clubs in the late 1960s, initially considered one of several “new Dylans,” and...
I don’t believe that I’ve ever run across the words “office” and “circus” in the same sentence. But if you think about it, looking after a...
Geographically speaking, when you conjure up notions of “the blues,” rarely does one think of San Diego, or, for that matter, California. Clarksburg, Mississippi; Chicago; Memphis;...
It never rains in California, so the song goes, and there are no seasons in this terrain, according to a great many residents transplanted from other...
“It’s ‘Monkey Wards’,” I tell him. No respectable six-year-old calls it “Montgomery Wards!” “I have a theory that’s what caused it,“Alan says. “When I fell off...
The recipe: take authentic West Virginia bluegrass roots, add the musical sensibilities of a fifth-generation Californian. Blend thoroughly, obtaining original genre-jumping songs, then add four other...
