Sacha Boutros has travel plans, musical travel plans, that is. The singer is preparing for the inaugural concert “Paris After Dark” in her Music Without Borders series. “It will be...
It was early October 1984—Friday, October 5th to be exact. The evening before I had gone to see Gene Clark, founding member of the Byrds and...
A discussion about music (and jazz in particular) in San Diego over the last five decades would be insubstantial if it failed to reference the contributions...
When Darius Degher texted me that he has a new album coming out, I cringed. I’ve really gotten into this true-crime podcast, and I knew that...
It’s 2021. Like most, I’m emerging from my COVID chrysalis with new skills. House painting. Avocado tree-growing. I’ve even written a few songs. I’m not an...
For more than four decades, Kevin Koch supplied splash, sizzle, and swoosh from behind his drum kit for numerous bands in San Diego County. It didn’t...
Studying music and advancing as an artist has always been my goal. Through this journey I’ve realized that I want to create and provide a platform...
Barry Alfonso and I interviewed Tom Waits in the lobby of the Little American Westgate back in the ’70s; he was wearing a ratty bathrobe, slippers...
The Troubadour lost our friend Larry Murray in May. Most people around here remember Larry from the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, led by Ed Douglas. We got...
