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...
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...
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...
Well for some 10 years I’ve pontificated (and occasionally bitched and moaned) on the pages of the SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR. I’ve told you stories about going...
Someone asked that I do a bit on the San Diego Folk Song Society and I have been in and around that organization since about 1958...
I first met Hank Bradley in Fresno, or maybe it was at the Sweets Mill Folk Festival, or maybe it was the Cabale Creamery in Berkeley....
If you were around here on the West Coast in the 40’s or 50’s chances are you came in contact with Tex Williams. He was, along...
It was an old converted movie theater in the L.A. suburb of Compton, built over in the front to look like an old barn. I never...
San Diego is coming up on the 100th anniversary of it’s great 1915 Pan American Exposition and World’s Fair in 2015. A year-long celebration in Balboa...
