Hello Troubadourians! I have been missing from the pages of the Troubadour for three months now, due to demands from my day job and some health...
Marcus Bashore is probably best known in the Southern California music community as a blues drummer. But, in reality, Bashore has pursued his artistry in several...
When I’m driving the car with family and friends, I like to let everyone be the DJ. Someone will play a song that will prompt another...
You’ll find a lot to like about the CD Songs for People (High & Low) from singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Pope. Nine of the ten tracks are original...
I Can Reach the Stars is the first album released by Jeff Berkley & the Banned, although everyone who took part in it has a multitude...
This month we look back at 2022, with a list of San Diego RIAA gold and platinum disc recipients, as well as an In Memoriam section,...
If you’re of a certain age, you remember the Gidget movies from the ’60s. Girls in bikinis that seemed scandalous but weren’t, the Watusi dance around...
Everything’s riding on this. —David Crosby I say it all the time backstage, before the show starts. It helps to loosen folks up and get a...
On February 3,, 1959, while sitting on the broke-down school bus in Fargo, Minnesota, Dion DiMucchi couldn’t feel the weight of the tragedy that had just...
Hard Times is the latest musical project from Chicago bluesman John Primer. It contains 13 original songs from one of the most prolific blues musicians still...