As I hinted (somewhat erroneously) in my last two columns, it can be difficult to put into proper words one’s true feelings after completing ten years’...
Looking back upon the seven and a half years that I have written for the Troubadour, I have at once a flood of images and yet,...
In 2001, a three-pronged attack on the East Coast — unprecedented in its scope — numbed the nation and the world. Also in that year, Bob...
Mensch. That simple Yiddish word says volumes: “…a person of integrity and honor…a decent, upright person…a “stand-up guy,” a person with the qualities one would hope...
Bill Monroe is universally considered the “father of bluegrass” music. If he were still alive (he died in September 1996) Bill Monroe would have turned 100...
Popular music has always been influential in our culture even as the popular musicians have changed time and time again. Pop music has introduced the listening...
The Riders, in full complement a quintet playing roots-rock, was profiled in a cover story in the May 2010 issue of the San Diego Troubadour, along...
Nine Pound Hammer Heart is the debut CD by Melly Frances and the Distilled Spirits, a group built around singer/songwriter Melanie Sponselee (AKA Melly Francis) and...
Fans of the local blues scene are familiar with Billy Watson, either as sideman for various artists (Robin Henkel, Mississippi Mudsharks, Billy Bacon and the Forbidden...