Hello Troubadourians! Every year in late January, the Anaheim Convention Center is overrun with all things musical. Yes, the annual Winter NAMM show was in town...
With April 1st coming up as I write, I’m looking over the Lou Curtiss Sound Library and all the tellers of tales I’ve run into and...
Music hangs heavy in the air like the sweetly acrid scent of kudzu on a hot and humid Georgia night. From across the Parkway Bar, the...
A San Diego Gem. Some of the best music presented anywhere in San Diego over the past ten years has been as part of the Bluegrass...
Remember the movie, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School? There’s a gag that runs through that cult classic. It seems the Ramones music is “lethal” to rodents....
Hello Troubadourians! You didn’t think that I’d paraphrase Walt Whitman last month and then not do it again this month, did you? It was too easy...
One of the great musical treasures here in San Diego is the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) headquarters in Carlsbad. NAMM, as you may be...
It was a rocky start. Well, not initially. I’d made arrangements to stay with friends that lived in Dana Point (about 30 miles away from Anaheim),...
FRANK STOKES was born on the first day of 1888 in the little railroad siding town of Whitehaven, which is south of Memphis and not far...
