Who knows where the time goes? As another calendar year begins so does the realization that it has been two and a half decades since the...
In September of 1982, I turned 21 in San Diego — able at last to legally enter any bar I wanted. Like most newly-minted 21-year-olds, the...
If you stroll into the Ritual Tavern in North Park on any given Wednesday, chances are you will hear a rhythmic and jivey music swelling from...
There is great joy in the blues. It’s an irony easily overlooked. But the North Mississippi Allstars on their 2013 release, World Boogie Is Coming, bring...
Christmas time is here again, ain’t been ’round since… last year! – George Harrison Seasons greetings one and all! Congratulations for making it through Thanksgiving with...
“This is what I’ve always done,” says Dusty Brough, his blond hair, curly and more than a little wild, pulled more than combed to one side....
You might say all American roots music came from jug band music. If you did say that, you’d be kinda right. Certainly, bluegrass, country, blues, Americana,...
Locally based jazz singers Sacha Boutros and Jonathan Karrant have a habit of bumping into each other at other people’s shows. Members of each other’s mutual...
There is nothing more unique than the sound of the human voice. From it comes all of the sounds of our spirit, our emotions, our passions....
