San Diego’s Lexington Field labels themselves “American fiddle rockers.” This is a wide open category, and though the band shows evidence of influences (Fairport Convention, bands...
In 2010, El Monte Slim released an EP, Kill Myself to Sleep, that caught the attention of local alt-country listeners and snagged an SD Music Award...
For decades accordionist Lou Fanucchi has distinguished himself as one of the most accomplished and versatile musicians of southern California. San Diegans might be familiar with...
Geographically, a lot of locals believe that San Diego has a musical center highly concentrated around downtown and extending through South Park and North Park. This...
Musical instruments have a funny way of getting stereotyped: banjos are mostly used for playing bluegrass, French horns for classical. And yet, an instrument is merely...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones…or more precisely the band that with the Kinks were the favorite bands of this author, until the fateful days in...
The first thing you hear on this record is the sound of an acoustic guitar and a gospel-like chorus of ooohs. It is soulful, graceful, soothing....
In the June 2011 issue of the San Diego Troubadour, I profiled the father and son behind one of the most compelling musical stories I’ve ever...
Switch on a TV, and the programming is nearly wall-to wall-karaoke shows, enormously popular contests full of marginally talented, aspiring young Mariah and hat-act wannabes, warbling...
