When I moved to Los Angeles in 1980, I worked just down the street from the Columbia Drug Store on the southeast corner of Sunset and Gower in Hollywood. With a soda fountain that served up good burgers, fries and […]
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Just a few days after I featured one of their appearances on the Andy Griffith Show, comes this sad news from the LA Times: “Banjo player Doug Dillard, an influential bluegrass musician who played with many rock outfits and with his family band the […]
Two years ago the family went to the Clearwater Festival in the Hudson Valley, a long way from our digs here in So Cali. I must admit to you right up front: I hadn’t been to a music festival for […]
After the war…The Big One…mom, dad and sis lived on Franklin Street just down the street from Mrs. Smith’s Pies and I showed up a few years later in ’52. Dad went to night school at Drexel on the GI […]
Yes I know…this is a music site. My posts should generally reflect the interests of the community. Those of us who listen, play and enjoy roots music. So somehow I’ll eventually get there if you choose to hang with me […]
Me, Mikey and Antoine took a Western Airline prop from the Burbank Airport on a late Thursday summer afternoon and landed in Las Vegas in time for veal chops, pasta and red wine at the Italian joint I owned a […]
The older kid and I have been immersed of late in the music gathered by John and Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, assorted other academics and folklorists, and the painstaking process of keeping old music alive with the help of government agencies […]
This could be a picture of my local record store, but we live near the desert so the snow is a dead giveaway that I ripped it off from some website with the click of the mouse. Not that I […]
Larry Campbell and John Sebastian (baritone guitar by Veillette Guitars) performing at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Show…
In what’s becoming an almost daily exercise, I’m sad to report the passing of Dick Clark. Host of the American Bandstand television show, producer, promoter, radio DJ, personality and from all accounts a pretty nice guy. From ABC News: “Longtime TV host […]
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