Andrew “Cactus” Soldi, Eugene “Smokey” Rogers, and Larry “Pedro” DePaul all got together as members of the Texas Jim Lewis Band (the Lone Star Cowboys) who...
It was the summer of 1965 and I was back in the South. (The previous two summers I’d spent in McComb and Jackson, Mississippi as a...
It was sometime in the 1960s (I forget just what year). It was in the fall and I had some time off from school and was...
In 1915 was the Pan American Exposition in Balboa Park and out of that closest thing to a World’s Fair yet held in San Diego came...
My friend Paul Vernon did a bit of a rant on the “Real Blues Forum” that I want to pass on to you, mixing in some...
Well, this past week has been kind of a trip I didn’t intend to take. Five days in the hospital and getting my blood pressure under...
Harold Darling opened the Sign of the Sun bookstore at Adams and College Ave. in San Diego sometime around 1960, catering to the students of San...
It’s always seemed to me that certain musicians who never seem to play together ought to. I can think of hundreds of instances where opportunities should...
I first saw Howlin’ Wolf in 1963 on his home turf at Big Duke’s Club on Chicago’s West Side, and later that same year at the...
