It was about 1957 when I first went into the Zodiac (a coffeehouse European) down at 11th and Broadway at street level below the old Pacific...
I can’t see that it’s worth the time for fans of a certain type of music to put down folks who listen to and love any...
Tom Shaw walked into Folk Arts Rare Records, back in 1970 looking for guitar strings (which I didn’t carry). Now I’d already had experience at that...
As our digital project moves along (we’re up to the 11th San Diego State Folk Festival now, which was in 1977) and as the word got...
It used to be that Tin Pan Alley and other places like it wrote the songs and song pluggers and song publishers got them out to...
Well, we are starting into converting the music from the 11th San Diego State Folk Festival, having just finished the 1975 and 1976 concert series we...
I opened Folk Arts Rare Records on July 31, 1967, and for most of the years and days that make them up I have been in...
I got to know Merrill pretty well in his later years when he would come by my store and talk to me about the old days...
I’ve tried to keep politics out of these columns but if you knew something about my background, you’d know that isn’t always possible. At any rate,...
