Note: Fred Gerlach was one of the few 12-string guitar players who played in the Leadbelly style back in the day. Although he never met Leadbelly,...
My dad was 14 years old when he hopped the Great Northern Freight Train, determined to see the world and work his way doing it. In...
TOMMY COLLINS: Tommy was one of the first Bakersfield Country Singers and songwriters but other than the Bear Family box set this is the first set...
We were putting on a Lightnin’ Hopkins concert at the Bifrost Bridge coffeehouse back in the late ’60s and needed an opening act. Conrad von Metzke...
I used to stay in Chula Vista with my Grandmother in the summer months back in the 1950s and that’s where I got acquainted with the...
There was a Memphis area blues singer, one of my favorites, in the ’20s and ’30s, named Frank Stokes, who was one hell of a guitar...
Virginia and I kicked off the show at the reunion of the Heritage Coffeehouse last Saturday (Oct 14) and it got me to thinking about my...
The cinder block building that, 54 years or so ago, housed the Heritage coffeehouse, located at 3842 Mission Blvd. in Mission Beach, is having a reunion...
It was the mid-’60s and I was doing some part time work in the summer at LA’s Ash Grove. I met up with these two guys...
