In 1965 Eric Clapton opted to leave a plum gig as lead guitarist for the hit-making Yardbirds to join John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. The musician was...
Marcus Bashore is probably best known in the Southern California music community as a blues drummer. But, in reality, Bashore has pursued his artistry in several...
If you’re of a certain age, you remember the Gidget movies from the ’60s. Girls in bikinis that seemed scandalous but weren’t, the Watusi dance around...
On February 3,, 1959, while sitting on the broke-down school bus in Fargo, Minnesota, Dion DiMucchi couldn’t feel the weight of the tragedy that had just...
JAVA JOE’S SHOW OF SHOWS It was over 30 years ago that Java Joe Flammini opened the first incarnation of his legendary string of performance venues,...
Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, an ironic designation if only because Dylan wasn’t a man of books, but rather a songwriter. The...
There aren’t many active bass players that come to mind that stand front and center on stage other than, perhaps, Paul McCartney and Sting. Most are...
In the shade of a magnolia tree, just as the first course is served, a peach and brie vol-au-vent, the strains of a quartet make their...
While the 1980s remain best known for the smooth dance-ready synth pop of MTV, other styles were enjoying renaissances: the rockabilly and wider roots revival (Beat...
