SAGE ADVICE FROM LOU CURTISS The next big event I’m working on is the Adams Ave Street Fair, which I’ve been doing for the last 15...
I’ve talked about lots of different kinds of cowboy and western music in these columns before. Living in the West I first became acquainted with the...
It was that big pile of 78 rpm records my folks had that started things off. Both Mom and Dad liked country and western, and I...
I’ve been collecting records since 1952, when I inherited my Dad’s collection of old 78s (mostly country music with some Bing, Beatrice Kaye, Kay Kyser, Yogi...
This city and its environs have a bad habit of ignoring our roots—particularly our musical roots and places where music has been heard. I could name...
I guess it all started with Sam Chatmon. It was in 1966 and I’d seen quite a bit of blues: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mississippi...
Black history on record started with orchestral and gospel music by groups like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Jim Europe’s Military Band, and vaudevillians like Bert Williams,...
Tom Waits has a couple of new CDs out and in spots he still sounds like the old Tom I remember from our days at the...
From the archives; first appeared in the October 2007 issue of the San Diego Troubadour) It seems that September ain’t doing anything wrong when it comes...
