What is it that makes Justin Townes Earle so unique? Even as he carries two names that could easily weigh him down–and maybe it has in...
Blues researcher Paul Oliver, talks about hearing Sonny Terry play a tune called “The Alcoholic Blues.” Sonny told him that he learned it from a little...
Dogma = the death of creativity. – Anonymous Tribe (as defined by Merriam-Webster): a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents,...
The acoustic bass guitar bears a shape that hints back to the early Hofner model played by Paul McCartney when the Beatles hit it big. A...
The Shadowdogs are rocking alt-country band that started out in 1998, put out a CD in 2003, Somewhere South of the Clef, that snagged an SDMA...
I grew up in Ventura, California, a small, sleepy beach town an hour north of Los Angeles. There wasn’t much to do. But there were miles...
My first Rebecca Jade experience came about four years ago, actually at the behest of NYC bassist (and former San Diegan) Danny Weller, who was back...
As an amateur musician, I got a call several years ago for an afternoon gig. A party, a wedding, I really can’t remember what the event...
June 1967. That month, half a century ago, decided it was time to kick some ass and show the world how things should be done. It...