Harold Darling opened the Sign of the Sun bookstore at Adams and College Ave. in San Diego sometime around 1960, catering to the students of San...
Like many of you, we’re just a couple of aspiring, undiscovered musicians living on meager budgets and trying to eke out a living, doing what we...
Attention, Troubadour readers who missed the recent 10th Anniversary Concert or haven’t had opportunity to attend the legendary holiday fests or CanyonFolk parties that pull together...
What makes a tune or a song “bluegrass”? Well, ask five bluegrass players and you will probably get five different answers, reflecting the fact that defining...
The local bluegrass scene has long featured a certain amount of interchangeable parts — musicians simultaneously in several bands, bands with a number of backup musicians...
Fallbrook is hometown to Larry Robinson, who has been playing music for decades. He was a member of Things to Come, a band that played LA’s...
Say what you want about the Monkees; they sold 37 million albums in l967 and none of those millions was too terribly bad. Their third LP,...
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” attr. George Berkeley, Philosopher This classic...
What began as a challenge between a father and his son has morphed into the musical highlight of San Diego spring season. The 13th Annual Spring...
If you are reading this the old-fashioned way, i.e., grasping the corners of thinly flattened leaves of paper pulp while your thumbs and forefingers stain with...