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FREE SAN DIEGO ROUBADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news May 2009 www.sandiegotroubadour.com Vol. 8, No. 8 what’s inside Welcome Mat ………3 Mission Contributors Berkley Hart Full Circle.. …………4 The Cascades Recordially, Lou Curtiss Front Porch... ………6 Folk Dance Festival Johnny Vernazza Parlor Showcase …10 Candye Kane Ramblin’... …………12 Bluegrass Corner The Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Stages Highway’s Song. …14 Deejha Marie Ian Tyson Of Note. ……………17 Jasmine Commerce Matt Commerce Chad Cavanaugh Nathan Welden Gunnar Biggs Folding Mr. Lincoln Four Eyes w/ Mark DeCerbo The Riders ‘Round About ....... …18 May Music Calendar The Local Seen ……19 Photo Page MAY 2009 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR welcome mat Berkley Hart Hits the RSAN ODUIEGBO ADOUR Jackpot with their New CD Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news by John Philip Wyllie again found the magic formula that remaining 10 songs are originals. All of MISSION CONTRIBUTORS makes this CD a worthy addition to them impress; several of them are their growing library of musical accom - bound to become Berkley Hart classics. To promote, encourage, and provide an ndividually, Calman Hart and Jeff FOUNDERS plishments. Hearing them perform I wish I could tell you which ones. alternative voice for the great local music that Berkley rank among the finest song - Ellen and Lyle Duplessie most of it live will be an added bonus Each time I cue it up a different way, is generally overlooked by the mass media; Liz Abbott writers in America’s Finest City. namely the genres of alternative country, Kent Johnson I given their stage presence, charisma, one pops to the forefront. Fuse their unique talents together and Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and penchant for telling amusing stories, “She’s so Beautiful” is a song we PUBLISHERS you have something really special. bluegrass. To entertain, educate, and bring and ability to entertain audiences. If have been playing for a while at our Liz Abbott That is why people stand up and take together players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson they ever, God forbid, lost their singing gigs and that has become a real crowd forms; to explore their foundations; and to notice whenever pleaser,” Berkley said expand the audience for these types of music. EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS this dynamic duo Liz Abbott in a recent phone emerges from SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local source for Chuck Schiele interview. “But there their in-home stu - alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, ADVERTISING are some other songs blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news, dio with a new Kent Johnson on there that have the is published monthly and is free of charge. CD in hand. Letters to the editor must be signed and may be BUSINESS CONSULTANT possibility of being Joanna Schiele Having produced edited for content. It is not, however, guaranteed n people’s favorite new o that they will appear. four award-win - t DISTRIBUTION n songs. Personally, I like ning studio a Kent Johnson C All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO “Conversations with Dave Sawyer albums in their e TROUBADOUR are solely the opinion of the C Mark Jackson e the Moon” (a song C writer and do not represent the opinions of the 11-year history, Indian Joe Stewart : o about loneliness and staff or management. All rights reserved. Berkley Hart has t Dan Long o h longing) and “Scarlet” Paul Cruz continued to P ADVERTISING INFORMATION (a song inspired by a For advertising rates, call 619/298-8488 build upon the STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER women at a Grateful or e-mail [email protected]. You can also find Steve Covault rock solid founda - Dead concert).” information on our website: tion that was laid www.sandiegotroubadour.com WEB MASTER The bluegrass Will Edwards in 2000 with their SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for $30/yr. inspired “Hey Darlene” initial release, Send check payable to S.D. Troubadour to: WRITERS benefits from the vir - Michael Alvarez Wreck ‘N’ Sow . San Diego Troubadour tuoso fiddle and banjo Julia Bemiss On May 15 P.O. Box 164 picking of B&H insider Peter Bolland and 16, Berkley La Jolla, CA 92038 Jennifer Carney Dennis Caplinger. And E-mail: [email protected]. Hart will debut its Jeff Berkley & Calman Hart Lou Curtiss “God in a Drawer” a WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy of the Will Edwards latest 11-song voices, these guys could make a living song about hypocrisy was particularly San Diego Troubadour? Go to Paul Hormick offering, Las Vegas with a CD release Frank Kocher doing stand-up with straight man Hart meaningful to me, but like I said, there www.sandiegotroubadour.com and click celebration at Hillcrest’s Swedenborg on FIND AN ISSUE for a complete list of Jim McInnes in the role of Abbott and Berkley, a are 10 poignant and masterfully crafted Bart Mendoza Hall. Upon hearing it I think you will locations we deliver to. modern-day Costello. songs here. Eleven years in, these guys Laura Preble agree that Las Vegas hits the jackpot. SUBMITTING YOUR CD FOR REVIEW Terry Roland Prolific as they are talented, Berkley are sounding better than ever. Berkley Hart’s Las Vegas album com - If you have a CD you’d like to be considered for Sven-Erik Seaholm Hart does not need to bother covering review, please send two copies to: San Diego José Sinatra bines all the elements that B&H fans Berkley Hart CD release anyone else’s music, but they still get a Troubadour, P.O. Box 164, La Jolla, CA 92038. Allen Singer have come to expect over the last two special evenings Steve Thorn kick out of reinventing hits from their Friday and Saturday, May 15 & 16, 8 p.m. SUBMITTING A CALENDAR LISTING decade. Intriguing melodies, warm har - D. Dwight Worden youth and performing them in the (doors open at 7:30) Email your gig date, including location, address, John Philip Wylie monies, clever, insightful lyrics, expert and time to [email protected] by Berkley Hart style. In 2002 they cov - Swedenborg Hall Cover design: Chuck Schiele musicianship, and trademark Jeff the 22rd of the month prior to publication. ered the the Band’s “Up on Cripple 1531 Tyler Ave., San Diego Photo: Alan Mercer Berkley and Calman Hart vocals. Tickets are $15 in advance through the Creek” with good results. This time ©2008 San Diego Troubadour. Combining elements of bluegrass, website (www.berkleyhart.com) and $20 at “Stir it Up,” the old Johnny Nash hit, rock ‘n’ roll, folk music, and the door (arrive early Berkley Hart has a is updated and improved upon. The The San Diego Troubadour is dedicated to the memory of Ellen and Lyle Duplessie , Americana, Berkley Hart has once loyal San Diego following) whose vision inspired the creation of this newspaper. www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 MAY 2009 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle s s the classic “Rhythm of the Rain.” “Rhythm” you are.” i t r was written and sung by group member The Cascades kept up with the times, u C u Gummoe. The song was recorded in the releasing records for the remainder of the o L f famous Gold Star Studio in Hollywood, the decade. Loyal fans packed the Red Coat Inn o y same studio where Phil Spector produced in East San Diego and radio stations always s e t r his brilliant “Wall of Sound” recordings and played “Rhythm” to promote their impend - u When the Cascades o Spector did indeed visit the recording ses - ing gigs. They also toured and made select C sions. It was in the sound affects library at TV appearances, but, unfortunately, this Gold Star that the Cascades found the would be the pinnacle of the group’s suc - Topped the Charts crashing thunderstorm tape, which appears cess, although they did chart three more at the beginning and end of the song. times in the lower reaches; “Shy Girl” (#91) Reaching #3 on the Hot 100, it also rated and “The Last Leaf” (#60) in 1963, with by Bart Mendoza and Steve Thorn #1 on the AC chart and #7 on the R&B their final chart appearance and a move to charts. One of the disc jockey’s responsible RCA Records in 1964 with “For Your Sweet for its early airplay was Bill Wade, then Love” (#86). The band released three hat do the Everly Brothers, employed at KDEO. Wade’s description of albums during its original lifetime, with Lawrence Welk, Dan the record’s climb to the top is filled with a only their first, 1963’s Rhythm of the Rain, WFolgelberg, Sara Brightman, sense of admiration for the hometown boys charting at #111. Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and Jason who made good. The group left Valiant later in 1964, with Donovan have in common? They’ve all sung “I felt the record was a hit the first time I Tony Grasso replacing Dave Stevens that the following words: heard it. I originally heard them practice the year. They went on to record for a variety of Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain song in a garage before they went to the labels, including RCA Victor, Liberty, Arwin, Telling me just what a fool I’ve been label and got it recorded.” Wade recalls. Smash, and Probe. Notably, Ray Davies of I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain “When it came the Kinks gave the band a pair of otherwise And let me be alone again out as a single, I unreleased tunes, and one of them, “This And they’re just the tip of the iceberg.