Last month I heard from my old friend Bob Bovee that our mutual friend Glenn Ohrlin, maybe the greatest cowboy singer that ever lived, had passed...
I first heard Rose Maddox on Town Hall Party sometime around 1953. She was calling herself the Sweetheart of Country Swing in those days and performing...
Most of us who sing folk and old time Songs in San Diego and have been around this city for awhile grew up with the music...
Remarkable sides pressed in the first 50 years or so of the recording industry, pressed back in the years when traditional music had not yet been...
Well, I’ve been involved in planning festivals that brought most every kind of music to San Diego over these past 50 years but, at age 75...
About the same time I started collecting records, I was also playing in the Drum and Bugle Corps at Southwest Jr. High, it was also about...
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....
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...
Well, as I sit here writing this it’s June 20, 2014. In 10 days I’m going to close the doors at Folk Arts Rare Records at...
