Considering this list, I’ve been attracted again to “Queen Jane Approximately,” one of Dylan’s best “list-making” songs. One the sharpest songs on his 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited, this love-sick...
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world We cannot cure the world of sorrows But we can choose to live in joy —Joseph Campbell As...
It’s hard to imagine a world without Zak Nilsson. Then again, it is hard to lose anyone who embodied so many virtues as this gentle friend....
Jumping joints have come and gone, and many musicians and fans are jamming with the angels. Yet, there has been one constant on the San Diego...
I joined my first professional blues band, King Biscuit, in 1981. We had a regular gig every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at a club in...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away last month, at age 101, and what we’ve lost is a great American voice. His poems were written in a wonderfully amorphous...
If you recall the Cascades 1962 classic hit “Rhythm of the Rain,” it conjures a gentle scene of a quiet storm by the sea, perhaps with...
A Lifetime of Achievement If you grew up in San Diego, chances are your classroom would have been treated to a visit by a man who...
Although they were both born in Oklahoma (Joe in Guthrie on July 9, 1915, and Jimmy in Newby on October 14, 1922), band leaders Joe and...
