Often, people think of bluegrass as a very old, even ancient, music. Its stereotype is of mountain hillbillies in straw hats, cavorting in overalls with an...
This month we take a look back at the recent Sonics / Mrs. Magician gig and of course, include a few reviews. The Sonics — Live...
My Dad took me down to the Great Northern railroad yards when I was about 11 years old and showed me how to hop a train....
The weekend of August 15-17 brought to San Diego the 12th annual Summergrass Bluegrass Festival. Presented by the San Diego Bluegrass Society and the North San...
Hello Troubadourians! Back in July I shared a brief treatise on tube amplifiers. I also mentioned that I would talk about non-tube amps in a later...
What’s that spinning voodoo I hear? Is that whirling, swirling sound the tidy bowl man’s last hurrah? Perhaps my stomach is informing my brain that two...
It is 4 p.m.Tuesday in 1970 and I am running as fast as I possibly can. Despite the bows on my PF Flyer tennis shoes being...
I was spending my second summer in Mississippi with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), teaching in a Freedom School in Jackson. That was the summer...
Hello Troubadourians! I like to experiment with my guitars. Usually that just means trying different things in my playing or more often, performing micro adjustments that...
