When I was in sixth grade, my family moved from San Diego’s suburbs into the untamed wilds of East County (specifically, Spring Valley). It was my...
Up until 1966 my connections with old time blues had been mostly in collecting blues records and going to concerts and festivals. In the ’50s and...
Rancho Santa Fe musician / songwriter David Gates may be best known as the frontman for seventies superstars, Bread, but his songs have had an even...
While San Diego has a long and storied history of supporting and offering more bluegrass music than one might expect from a West Coast corner of...
It was late in the year of 1968 and Bob Cline and Monroe Jeffery were running a coffee house in La Mesa called the Bifrost Bridge...
In ancient Greece, a priestess, or oracle, would dispense prophesies, wisdom, and answers to the most vexing of questions. This is of course after first inhaling...
“Ya learn sumpin’ new every day!” said the mechanic, wiping the sleeve of his grease smeared coveralls across his equally soiled forehead. I watched as he...
I moved Folk Arts Rare Records from Hillcrest over to Adams Avenue in 1977. At that time the San Diego State Folk Festivals still had 10...
Escondido musician / songwriter JJ Cale may have only had one hit in his 50+ years (“Crazy Mama” #22 / 1971) but there is no doubt...
