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...
This is a tale of two historic country music institutions. Often, they have been confused as one and the same. The Grand Ole Opry is the...
She’s a petite blond with a voice that can both rattle the rafters and lull you with its sweetness. She can be crude and raunchy, self-deprecating...
Calling out around the world Are you ready for a brand new beat? Summer’s here and the time is right For Dancing in the Street. –...
