Chris Sullivan has reason to gloat these days. This month, two of his bands are up for San Diego Music Awards. His hard rockin’ Farmers are...
In the canon of ’60s British folk rock, Donovan’s 1966 album, Sunshine Superman, is a milestone. After being pegged by the media as a Dylan wannabe...
Bluegrass music covers the fields and landscapes of America in some very unsuspecting places. At times the salt-of-the-earth music reaches out from beyond itself into the...
A popular saying reads, “You can’t choose your family.” I’d venture that you don’t necessarily choose your friends either. I remember the first time I met...
“I say this to the world: The Beatles did what they did, the rest of us played the blues.” – George Thorogood There’s nothing more American...
Sound. Paint. Same stuff with the exception that each are perceived by a different physical means. Eyes. ears. What they have in common are line, shape,...
Over the course of the recent spring months, local musicians Dave Humphries and Jim Hinton have been hitting the coffee house circuit, swapping songs and exchanging...
There are only a few, I believe, ‘prerequisites’ for being an open mic host, and none of them are what you would immediately imagine: tenacity, stamina,...
The walls of Martin Grusin’s Del Mar home are crowded with mementos. Photographs of family and entertainers, many of them autographed, hang next to certificates or...
