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...
Russ Hamm and I are starting in on the work of transferring the material in my library to digital format. As I told you previously, the...
Someone suggested to me that I get one of those t-shirts that reads “I may be old but I got to see all the good bands.”...
Black history on record started with orchestra and gospel music by groups like the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Jim Europe Military Band and a few...
Sam Chatmon was one of the most remarkable individuals I have ever known. During the years he spent in San Diego (1966-1982, where he became an...
I’d only been in San Diego about a week. It was September and it was hot. My uncle Tony called them Santa Ana winds. They sure...
It was along about 1969 that I first became more than aware of U Utah Phillips. Now, I had heard of Bruce Phillips some time before...
There used to be a club on First and C Streets in downtown San Diego called the College Inn that was a long-time home to country...
The first phonograph records that I was even consciously aware of when I was about four or five years old were by Roy Acuff and the...
