Hello Troubadourians! While this column will appear in December, I’m writing it in early November. So what with Thanksgiving coming up soon, before I continue with...
Singer-songwriter, poet, and storyteller, P.F. Sloan died last month in Los Angeles at the age of 70. The cause of death has been reported as pancreatic...
With its action-inspired populuxe watercolor portraits of the band members and the prominent labeling of HIGH-FIDELITY and STEREO that were de rigueur for the album covers...
The bygone days of the Albatross, Elario’s, and Chuck’s Steak House, where one could hear mainstream jazz back in the 1970s and ’80s, are long gone,...
Things seemed almost stabile. Like a storm that blows, bullies, and blusters, then suddenly subsides, I was cautiously hopeful. Before the band (22 Kings) showed up...
I first heard about Roscoe Holcomb sometime in the early 1950s when the Sign of the Sun Bookstore in San Diego ran a series of films...
Ypsitucky is a new group formed by El Monte Slim’s Ian Trumbull. While the Slim are on temporary hold, Michigan transplant Trumbull added Slim’s rhythm section...
Once a year, usually in October, the bluegrass world gathers in Raleigh, North Carolina for the annual International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass Conference. There...
Sara and Sean Watkins — co-founders of the Grammy-winning acoustic trio Nickel Creek, who were raised literally in the bluegrass scene of North County — have...
Chickenbone Slim. Perhaps the most essential question is this: Why? The answer: because there needs to be a Chickenbone, of course. And he needs to play...