Whereas in past decades it was the norm for a band to wear its influences on its sleeve, being a hard rock band, a rockabilly band,...
And on the seventh day, God rested…for a while. Then He created the guitar, and saw that it was good. And the ends of the earth...
Aaron Bowen — dyed-in-the-wool mercurial madman-genius — is on a perpetually morphing crusade. Several, actually. When the Troubadour last checked in with him via January’s cover...
It was the summer of 1965 and I was back in the South. (The previous two summers I’d spent in McComb and Jackson, Mississippi as a...
In 1998, renowned singer-songwriter, John Hiatt, went into the studio with The Band to record his song “Bound by Love.” The song would appear on The...
Earl Thomas relocated to Northern California some time ago, but he still has a huge local fan base, as well as one in the Bay Area,...
Hello Troubadourians! Last month we talked about different techniques you can use to make your guitar sound more “natural” when using a piezo pickup. This month...
I can recall my elementary school days with nearly day-to-day precision. One day Mrs. Merrill introduced a new word with the first really fun, evocative definition...
San Diego’s Blaze Eisner’s 2011 EP, An Unquiet Mind was acoustic-based soft-rock music with bass and drum bottom; several tunes blended his clever lyrical messages with...
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but there’s a bootleg recording from 1973 of Jack Tempchin (with his friend Tom Waits) performing a song called...