San Diego’s Blaze Eisner’s 2011 EP, An Unquiet Mind was acoustic-based soft-rock music with bass and drum bottom; several tunes blended his clever lyrical messages with...
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but there’s a bootleg recording from 1973 of Jack Tempchin (with his friend Tom Waits) performing a song called...
A case can be made for a thriving subgenre of emo-folk music. Combining lyrical obsessions with themes like social isolation, depression, suicide, and all manner of...
Fingerstyle guitar, a traditional technique of plucking multiple strings with multiple fingers, is almost magical. The simplest tunes and compositions that may fall flat were they...
The Lacemakers’ mission statement is “Interlacing Celtic, traditonal, and original music for all occasions.” They are Heloise Love, Miss Darla, and Kim Donaldson, and while the...
In the March issue of the Troubadour, Sarah Maisel’s superb ukulele disc Have Uke Will Travel earned well-deserved praise. Tim Coffman played a big part in...
Roots rocker Josh Damigo doesn’t have to worry about the sophomore slump. Damigo’s second effort, Hope, is an hour-long outburst of unfettered human emotion, showcasing a...
Twelve years ago Will Faeber returned to San Diego after spending some time in Europe where he enjoyed a successful hit record called No Small Comfort....
Let’s get right to the point. New Orleans Preserves is a really good album. It’s full of well chosen covers, with a trio of originals highlighting...
