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Welcome Mat ………3 Mission Contributors San Diego Drum Shop Full Circle.. …………4 Josh White Jr. Recordially, Lou Curtiss Front Porch... ………6 Dixieland Jazz Festival David Page Kelsea Little Parlor Showcase …8 Coco and Lafe Ramblin’... …………10 Bluegrass Corner Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Stages Highway’s Song. …12 Creole Choir of Cuba Of Note. ……………13 Big Shot Reub & the Reloaders Emmylou Harris Wild Older Women Quimera Music Peter Case ‘Round About ...... …14 November Music Calendar The Local Seen ……15 Photo Page Come visit me and see my art in Spanish Village. I’m in Studio 37 Mondays and Wednesdays. NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR welcome mat

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www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle Josh White Jr. Turns Toward the Blues and His Father's Legacy by Terry Roland hasn’t picked up his story. Like some folks session musician in Chicago. With the say, “you can’t make this stuff up!” money he earned, he eventually returned here aren’t many people who have Two months after his father’s death, home to Greenville, South Carolina where lived a life along the crests of seven-year-old Josh found he could pick up his mother lived. TAmerican history and its culture. For a sizable two dollars a week by leading a In 1930 a New York record company, Josh White Jr., his life over the last 70 years blind blues street singer named Blind Man ARC Records, came to Chicago looking for has seen the depths of southern racism, the Arnold to street corners and then help with Josh White. They wanted the “boy who heights of musical celebration and celebrity entertainment by joining in with a tam - recorded for Paramount in 1928.” When success, and the kind of achievement that bourine. The street singer found that he was they found him he agreed, with the influ - transcends it all. Born to cultural icon Josh making more money with this gifted child ence of his mother, to sign a recording con - White, in 1940, today he embraces his who also learned to dance and sing. For a tract provided he would only record gospel father’s legacy and has been an important near decade Blind Man Arnold realized that music. As a result he was billed as “Josh catalyst in keeping his music and life story he could rent Josh out to other blind street White, the Singing Christian.” It didn’t take in the public eye. He’s also been an artist blues singers, as many as 66, including long until he succumbed to the temptation who has been willing to take his music any Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, and of the “the devil’s music,” otherwise known where that people are open to hearing the Billy Joe Taggart. Soon, a student-teacher as the blues, and he began to accept session stories expressed through an acoustic blues relationship developed between Josh and his work for up-and-coming artists as well. In guitar and his blues-soaked voice, which guitar-playing, blues-singing employers. It order to make this work, at 18 and still rings out with the depth of his soul. wasn’t long before he mastered their guitar underage, he signed on as “Pinewood Tom” When listening to Josh White Jr. it styles. in 1932 for his blues work. ARC kept him sometimes seems hauntingly like he and his recording gospel under his own name, but folk-blues legend father are simply two then added the name “Tippy Barton” as parts of the same soul. At age four Josh well. After he injured his left hand, a result White Jr. made his debut, dressed up to of a bar fight, his doctors told him to have match his father on stage with his foot on a the hand amputated due to gangrene. He stool playing and singing with him at New refused and his hand soon recovered but York’s Cafe Society during in 1944. By 1949 was immobile. Soon he found his way to a he was cast in a Broadway show called How singing career and through exercise restored Long ’Til Summer . He won a special Tony the use of his hand, which revived his award for Best Child Actor for this perform - recording and performing career. As he ance the same year. During that year it began playing private parties around Josh White Jr. seemed he was sitting on top of the world Harlem, he was offered the role of Blind Roosevelt and Paul Robeson, to appear cess. Recently, he has paid tribute to his or to put it more accurately, he was sitting Lemon Jefferson for the Broadway musical, before the House Un-American Activities blues roots and also, as on his latest album on his father’s shoulders, who was certainly John Henry , whose character was the narra - Committee. While he didn’t give them Turning for the Blues , which is a lean, close- on top of the world. While Josh Jr.’s career tor of the play. While the casting directors names and only defended his own patriot - to-the-bone album of acoustic blues covers. was only beginning to take off, 1950 had been searching for the right actor for ism while he condemned the Communist The album is filled with fresh takes on such became a critical year for his father who the part before auditioning Josh, they Party, he was blacklisted by both the left old blues classics as “CC Rider,” “Been would fall into a decline it would take a searched through available “race” records and the right. He moved to England Down So Long,” and his father’s own decade to recover from. But for Josh Sr. the Josh White Sr. for a suitable artist. They narrowed their throughout much of the ’50s. He lived out “Careless Love.” years from his birth in 1914 until 1950 were search down to two artists: “Pinewood Tom” his last years by becoming the first artist One of the most important song inter - eventful enough for an epic story of In 1927, Paramount Records was doing and “The Singing Christian.” Both artists signed to Jack Holzman’s Electra Records, pretations he has done is the song “Cortelia American rags-to-riches success and deter - field recordings, hunting ethnic artists in were actually Josh White. The play opened which would later sign such classic rock Clark” from the album of the same name. mination. Chicago where, because of his work with to a limited run in 1940 with Paul Robeson acts as The Doors and Love, and he would The song was written by the oft-overlooked Josh White Sr. came up in the tradition - Blind Billy Joe Taggart, he was hired to back as John Henry and Josh White as Blind continue to play before anyone who invited Mickey Newbury, possibly one of the five al American school of country Piedmont up new blues artists. He was 13 years old. Lemon Jefferson. him. This included a television with best American songwriters. The song blues. He was raised to love music through He was kept under Taggart’s authority at Throughout the 1940s, Josh’s fortune’s President Kennedy and an invitation to per - describes the journey of an old black man the church of his minister father and this time. He first recorded with his name surged him into a unique spotlight as a form at President Lyndon Johnson’s inaugu - and young boy to see a newly built train, Christian mother. By five years old he was on the song “Scandalous and a Shame,” black folk and blues singer and a budding ration. He died of heart disease in 1969, the first time it comes through a southern singing in the church choir. His father was credited to Blind Joe Taggart and Joshua stage and film actor. He collaborated with seeing his career back in full swing and town. It is a portrait song Newbury was so brutally murdered for throwing a bill collec - White. The story here is that Taggart had the likes of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and receiving admiration from younger people good at painting through melody and lyric. tor out of his house when Josh Sr. was a Josh bound to a type of servitude, never Burl Ives on radio broadcasts produced by as influence. In Josh’s hands, with acting and vocal skill, mere seven years old. Both the gospel music paying him for his recording and perform - Alan Lomax and directed by film director In 1940, during the beginning of his he brings it alive full on the canvas. The and the killing of his father would leave an ances, making him sleep outside in alleys Nicholas Ray. He also joined the Almanac father’s most fruitful years, Josh Jr. was familiarity of it is in the fact that another indelible mark on him that would influence while Taggart rented hotel rooms. When a Singers during this time. He scored a hit born. From his Tony win in 1949 until the great vocalist of his time took one of his career throughout his all-too-short 55 man from Paramount who was starting his with the song “Careless Love” and recorded ’60s Josh would see unusual success for a Mickey Newbury’s song about the south and years of life. But Josh Sr.’s early stories are own blues label found Josh, he told Taggart the John Hammond-produced Chain Gang young African-American child. Shielded, at did the same thing: It was Mickey’s mood so full of imagination and creativity it seems he would turn him for child abuse unless he album about the plight of the African- least situationally from his father’s trials, and melodic arrangement medley called like it could play like good American fiction let Josh go. Taggart released Josh from any American convict, which was endorsed by Josh continued on in theater. He appeared “Southern Triology,” which Elvis immortal - and makes you wonder why Hollywood obligations and soon Josh became a paid President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1940 he in plays and more than 50 guest-starring ized on stage over three decades ago. With performed at President Roosevelt’s inaugura - roles on television. He recorded his first his own arrangement of a Newbury song, tion. Indeed, White became the first album, See Saw , in 1956. By the early ’60s, Josh walks into the same Americana land - African-American to give a command per - well into adulthood, finding work as an scape Elvis once ventured into. Over the formance at the White House for the actor became increasingly difficult. But he years Josh Jr. continues to create vibrant, Roosevelts. It was during this time his most found his redemption in the folk music original, and soulful blues with traces of popular recording “One Meatball” was boom movement during that time. This was jazz mixed in through his blues. released. It became a huge success and was largely inspired by the Kingston Trio’s suc - But, even though in some cases, when a later covered by the Andrew Sisters and cess in the late ’50s when they decided to child carries the legacy of the legend and Bing Crosby. He was also known around pick up where the black-listed Weavers, music of a famous parent, Josh’s stance has Greenwich Village’s first integrated night - including Josh Sr.’s old friend Pete Seeger, always been as though he’s an individual - club, the left-leaning Cafe Society. It was left off. Josh had a definite advantage during ized extension of much of what his father there that he held a near ten-year residency the folk revival and the eventual emergence was doing during his life time. It’s as though and found his musical experience broaden of a new generation of blues fans in the late he has no worry about the shadow Josh Sr. into cabaret and pop styles. He also became ’60s with his father. Unlike many celebrity has cast; maybe, at times, it’s more like well-known among New York City socialites off-spring and the generation of this time, shade. When listening to Josh Jr.’s consider - as the “darling of Fifth Avenue.” Even Lena Josh Jr. was close to his father and learned able body of work it is clear he’s more than Horne and Eartha Kitt considered him a from him until his death. comfortable with his father’s legacy and its mentor. In 1945 Paramount Studios had Josh Jr. immersed himself in American influence on him today. It’s as though he plans for a movie about Alan Lomax called folk music during the ’60s. Like his father, continues to cast the same shadow of his Adventures of a Ballad Hunter to star Bing he spread his wings into diverse forms and father rather than being covered by it. This Crosby and Josh White as Leadbelly. styles. His repertoire today ranges from has resulted in the best of possible worlds Although the film never made it to produc - country blues to traditional folk. But he also for the legacy of Josh White Sr. with his son tion, White appeared in other films includ - has ventured into children’s music, world capably able to bring him back into the ing The Crimson Canary and most notably, music, country, jazz, rock, and pop stan - spotlight as though he is simply a part of The Walking Hills , which was directed by dards. He retains his father’s gift for intricate his being. This may be the deepest truth to John Sturgges and starred Arthur Kennedy folk-blues guitar work and a gospel-fevered be found in the musical legacy that is found and Randolph Scott. Its year of release was vocal style that can sometimes send chills in these two great souls. 1950. It would be his last film. down your spine. For the last half-decade, Don’t miss Josh White Jr., playing at a San Because he was known for his stand on Josh Jr. has rarely been seen in the company civil rights by openly singing protest songs Diego Folk Heritage concert, on Saturday, of the Cafe Society kind of crowd, prefer - November 12, 7:30pm, at the San Dieguito and songs against segregation, Josh came ring, like many folksingers of his era, to under the scrutiny of the FBI during the United Methodist Church, 170 Calle play for college students, schools, and folk- Magdalena, Encinitas. Thanks to a generous McCarthy era. After threats and several music enthusiasts at smaller venues. unjust interrogations, Josh agreed, against donation from a Folk Heritage member, admis - Although much of his music is strong in its sion is only $10. the advice of former first-lady, Eleanor pop sensibility, he never pursued pop suc - 4 www.facebook.com/sandiegotroubadour NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle

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I o Festivals still had 10 years to go and the h We built up a nice little troop that worked Courtney, Bonnie Jefferson, Thomas Shaw, were asked to go away and not do music in P weekly concert series I was doing at on those concerts. The church let us use Sister Helen Sanders and her Family, Henry that church anymore. It was too bad and the Orango’s in Mission Hills was sort of wind - their kitchen and we had a crew that baked Ford Thompson, Brother Jerone Lee and his folks who made problems eventually went ing down and came to an end with a really fresh cookies every week for the crowd. We Sanctified Sax, Louis Major, the Cokers, away. We did a second Blues Festival at San wet winter we had that year. I wasn’t on did a couple of music festivals in the James Earl Wilkins, Winifred Stewart, Sister Diego State’s Backdoor that featured, along Adams Avenue long when the minister at church – the first was a Sea Chanty Festival, Charlie Mae Ralph and Family, Ervin “Big with the locals, Lowell Fulson, Clarence the United Methodist Church in Normal and, as far as I know, the first one in San Daddy” Rucker, Nat Dove, Fro Brigham’s Gatemouth Brown, and Roy Brown, but it Heights approached me about doing a con - Diego – and the second was a Blues Preservation Band, Jesse Lee Wilkins, and a didn’t have the life of that first little festival cert series (like the Orango’s series) in the Festival, which was our undoing. It was late whole lot more. We brought in Rufus and in Normal Heights. It didn’t draw as well Church Social Hall. I took him up on that 1979 when I brought in Steve LaVere who Martha to do barbeque and it was a fine lit - either, especially not the mixed audience and for the next three years we ran a series had worked on the River City Blues Festival tle family festival done at a white church that the first one had. That one was some - there that included some local artists and in Memphis. The two of us decided to hold with a mixed audience that enjoyed a hell of thing. many others on the road like Frankie a three-day Blues Festival at the church in a lot of good music. At that time, however, After doing that for awhile I did the Lou Curtiss Armstrong, Guy and Candie Carawan, Kyle Normal Heights and it went forth. We used there were some people in the leadership of San Diego Folk Festivals until they played Creed, Red River Dave McEnery, and others. all local talent with two days devoted to that church who didn’t want that kind of out in 1987 and various concerts at another tival, but I could do both,” and the Adams blues and Sunday to traditional gospel music (or folks) in their church and the Methodist Church in North Park, at the Avenue Avenue Roots Festival was born. music. We had artists like Tom “Tomcat” result was that the minister got fired and we Copley YMCA, and at a house over on For the next 14 years we brought artists like OLD BROTHER LOU’s HOT and Robinson Street. John Jackson, U Utah Phillips, Rose OBSCURE CDs YOU MIGHT NOT In 1994 Scott Kessler from the Adams Maddox, Hank Thompson, Santiago Jiminez KNOW ABOUT Avenue Business Association asked me if I’d Jr., Charlie Bailey (of the Bailey Brothers), like to help with the booking for the Adams HENRY GRAY: LUCKY MAN (Blind Odetta, Bashful Brother Oswald, Peggy Avenue Street Fair and I told him, “What I Seeger, D.L. Menard, Howard Armstrong, Pig 8013) one of the best Chicago Phil Harmonic Sez: want to do is another traditional music fes - blues piano guys (right up there with Janet McBride, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz Otis Spann). A lovely, rolling, cas - and Ginny Hawker, Lalo Guererro, and a cading quality you just don’t hear on whole lot more. We brought Louisiana blues piano anymore. Cajun Music, traditional Irish music, all “You miss kinds of old-time country and blues, MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL: Appalachian folk songs, French Canadian DOWN HOME LIVE 1959 (JSP 4227) 100 percent music, Norteña from San Antonio, and The original Alan Lomax recordings revivalists by the score. When we started of Fred on two CDs, also featuring of the shots doing these Roots Festivals we continued other artists from Como, Mississippi. the numbering system from the old San If you like Delta blues, this is essen - you don’t Diego State Folk Festivals so the first Roots tial! Festival was listed as the 21st. It was a take.” pleasure to put together the next 14 and GEORGE McCORMICK AND EARL part of the 15th Roots Festivals. AYCOCK: GONNA SHAKE THIS — Wayne Gretzky I also served on the board of the Adams SHACK TONIGHT (Bear Family 17121) Ave. Business Association from 1994 to Some of the best country duet 2007. After I left the board I was told I was singing you are going to hear. 29 no longer welcome at Business Association high-class 1950 sides. This is real meetings or events with no reason given. country music. More recently I’ve been hearing rumors that I am going to be asked back but nothing THE BRISTOL SESSIONS (Bear has been forthcoming from the Adams Ave. Family 16094) This is without a doubt Business Association. the best and most important reissue Folk Arts Rare Records has been a busi - of old-time country music in years. In ness on the Avenue here since 1977 and I July and August of 1927 Victor think I’ve contributed to the overall Record’s held a series of sessions in ambiance of the Avenue. Every year I pay Bristol, Tennessee (including the first my BID fees and, frankly, since Mr. recordings of Jimmie Rodgers and Schneider told me to get the hell down the the Carter Family but a lot of other road, I’ve been contemplating doing just folks too). This collection features that. So in the next little while I am going over 100 recordings of those other to close Folk Arts Rare Records and take my folks, including the Carolina Twins, own personal collection out to my home in Alfred G. Karnes, Ernest Stoneman, El Cajon, continue to do my radio show Uncle Eck Dunford, B.F. Shelton, (Sundays KSDS 88.3FM at 8pm), listen to Clarence Greene, and others. 120 my records, fool with my Facebook virtual Folk Festival, and pick a little. Maybe some - page book of notes. This is a must one in El Cajon will ask me to help with a have. music festival. I might do that. ODD COUPLES: WHAT WERE THEY Recordially, THINKING? (Bear Family 16397) This Lou Curtiss set includes records by folks who did duets that never should have. Like Perry Como and the Sons of the Pioneers, Eddie Arnold and Esquivel, Red Foley and Cecil Gant, Don Gibson and Los Indios Trabajaras, and lots more like this. This is for collectors of the weird.

FLOWERS IN THE WILDWOOD: WOMEN IN EARLY COUNTRY MUSIC (Trikont 310) This is a great collection of recordings made between 1923 and 1939. It includes the Dezurik Sisters, the Girls of the Golden West, Moonshine Kate, the Coon Creek Girls, and others. It comes with a 28- page illustrated booklet.

ARMENIANS ON 8TH AVENUE (Traditional Crossroads 4279) Here are mostly sides reissued from recordings made in the 1940s in New York City’s 8th Avenue. The music is lively, featuring traditional instru - ments like the ud, kanun, violin, and clarinet. The collection features some well-known performers in that genre with notes and song lyrics in Turkish and English.

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The San Diego Dixieland Jazz By Gregory Page n a hot summer’s dog day after - Festival Returns Just in Time noon I met up with my Uncle My Uncle, David Page ODave Page at the Kensington Cafe for Thanksgiving for a welcome-home cup of Joe. He and his d i

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of your musical comfort zone and dreams and aspirations along with their P Stry something a little different. talkative chihuahua “Cricket,” and turned a That’s what I did last November when I new page (pun intended) to a new chapter dropped by the San Diego Dixieland Jazz in their lives in a quiet town in the North Festival held at Mission Valley’s Town & called Moira (which happens to my Mum’s Country Hotel. name). The green, green grass of home is As a child I was fortunate to see Louie not always greener on the other side and Armstrong perform. Some years later I less than a year after they had their Bon visited New Orleans where I enjoyed the legendary Al Hirt in concert. Music was Voyage Party, which was attended by family everywhere in the Big Easy and I fell in and a who’s who of the musical community, love with the toe-tapping rhythm and the they were back in sunny San Diego. “So joyous feel of Dixieland music. There, the how was it over there in the magical land of seed was planted. In the subsequent years High Sierra Jazz Band n o my ears have perked up whenever I have s d u H

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Dixieland festival for years and I seriously : o t thought about going. For whatever rea - o h son, I never made it. Big mistake! I finally P attended my first San Diego Dixieland Festival in 2008 and it was wonderful! Now it is a regular feature on my musical David Page with wife, Sandy calendar. Lucky Charms and whiskey?” I asked in a The festival, hosted by the San Diego Dixieland Society will celebrate its 32nd made-up Irish accent. “Ireland has three months of winter and year this November and run Red Skunk Zipzee Swing Band Thanksgiving weekend from November then nine months of bad weather,” he 23-27 at the Town & Country Hotel in replied with smile. I noticed, though, that Mission Valley. More than 20 top-notch he had not lost his California tan as he con - bands from far wide will perform. While tinued to explain that between the cold rain many of them will naturally play tradi - and the falling economic crisis it was an tional Dixieland jazz there will enough easy decision to return. variety on display to make this festival As we caught up on what had happened really interesting. to the both of us over that year, Uncle Dave Notable local acts slated to perform was tapping his pen in rhythm on his mug David Page with nephew Gregory Page include Sue Palmer and Her Motel Swing and a ketchup bottle. As a child growing up Orchestra. They never fail to entertain d in Dublin, Dave Page knew in his young says with a laugh, “I’ve not made a bean, i Sue Palmer & her Motel Swing Orchestra s and amuse. Dixie Express, the San Diego u heart that when he grew up he would really, but I haven’t been miserable, I’ve h C Banjo Band and the Heliotrope Ragtime n

see the continued participation of some become a drummer. done more than I’ve ever wished for. I tell a D

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excellent youth ensembles. The Mission this to Sandy – all I’ve ever wished for up to o His musician father David Page Senior t

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Bay High School Dixie Band and prodigy h group of local ensembles. told him one day, “Its not easy to earn a liv - now I’ve done. When I was a kid I dreamed P saxophonist and clarinet whiz Chloe Fans of Louis Armstrong, King Oliver ing by playing music and I’ll warn you right of performing at Carnegie Hall, which I did. Feoranzo impressed last year and will and Jerry Lee Lewis will enjoy entire sets now. I’m not trying to put you off, and I I wanted to travel the world, which I did again perform this time. dedicated to those musical legends. know you are talented enough if you prac - several times. Everything I dreamed of I’ve Five day passes are just $95. Daily Headliners this year include many tice and concentrate but I must advise you done. Now I’m here; I’m ready for more. badges run from $15-$40 as follows 11- familiar acts from festivals past. These that you won’t make much money.” “Dreams can’t stop, if I ever gave for 23 ($15), 11-24 ($20), 11-25 ($40), 11- include Tim Laughlin’s New Orleans All- whatever reason I would not give up dream - 26 ($40) and 11-27 ($25) A wide array of Uncle Dave put down his cup of tea and Gregory and David at the Belly Up earlier Stars, High Society Jazz Band, Titanic Jazz food and beverages including a said with a smile, “You know what, he was ing,” We talk about some of the memorable this year Band, Night Blooming Jazzmen, Yerba Thanksgiving Day Buffet are available for right. I’ll tell you honestly that if I had to go shows and bands he has been in along with with the BBC Orchestra as well as with the Buena Stompers, High Sierra Jazz Band, purchase on site and all-day parking is back to the beginning and had the chance films scores he has recorded on. David was Grand Dominion Jazz Band, Uptown Glen Miller Band. He has been the drummer available for only $6.00. to change anything, I wouldn’t change a the original drummer for Tom Jones, Lowdown, the Red Pepper Jazz Band and on several movie scores including The For additional information visit the fes - thing” As the buses and scooters hurry past appearing on the “Ed Sullivan Show.” He a handful of others. Prince and the Showgirl , which featured him tival’s website at www.dixielandjazzfesti - us and the neighborhood is on the move, I has performed with such artists as Frank While this festival tends to draw a accompanying Sir Laurence Olivier and val.org . Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, and has decidedly older crowd, we were please to sit listening to my Uncle Dave ignoring the Marilyn Monroe; Island in the Sun ; and the din around us, “I have to be honest,” he recorded with Marvin Gaye. He worked BBC production of Alice in Wonderland star - ring Peter Sellers. He can be heard regularly on the soundtrack of Monty Python’s Flying Circus . So I ask what keeps him inspired to play drums whether its at the Hollywood Bowl or the Farmers Market? “I haven’t a clue,” he replies and then elaborates. “One thing that inspires me is that I want my parents to be proud of me and want my kids to be proud of me; I’m sure they are. . I ask him about his custom-drum compa - ny Page Drums, if he feels discouraged by the lack of sales after 15 years of building some of the best drum kits in the world. He is quick to answer, “What kills me is that after all the trade shows and countless money spent on advertising along with world-class drummers playing my drums on national TV to millions of people, it has not done us much good.” I interject, “Stopping Page Drums is an option, but to stop playing Page Drums is not.” There is no slowing down in his future when it comes to perfuming. He has more energy and enthusiasm than most drummers half his age. I turn off my tape recorder and put the lid on my pen as my generous uncle picks up the tab. I speak for many when I say how grateful I feel to have him and my aunt back in the neighborhood again.

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ou can pinpoint the day the world first learned of Kelsea Little’s talent. YIt was November 21, 2006. That kelsea little makes was the date that someone posted an ama - teur video of a young trio featuring Little and the Wrong Trousers, busking a version of the Buggles “Video Killed the Radio the harp a cool Star,” in Balboa Park. Recasting the song for harp, mandolin, and upright bass, the amateur clip quickly went viral, showing up on blogs and news sites all over the world. To date the clip has been seen by instrument to play more than 633,000 people. Now on indefinite hiatus, the Wrong Trousers consisted of harpist Little, stand up bassist Mackenzie Leighton, and man - dolin player Joseph Lorge. Formed in high

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draw on the local coffeehouse circuit, but and doesn’t sound good have been spot on. Hare Krishna home page, with me saying n e D amicably drifted apart in 2009. Whatever ‘it’ is, she’s got it.” ‘Hare Krishna.’ That was the funniest thing : o t

Little has since become a solo artist. On Harp might not seem like an obvious that happened,” she recalled. o h December 3, she will host a CD release first choice for an instrument, However, Collectors should note that Little has P party at Lestat’s celebrating her debut Little has been focused on it, pretty much done session work, including albums by album, Personal Myth . since the first time she laid eyes on one. Tokeli, Isaac Cheong, and Happy Ron Hill. While the Wrong Trousers was known “My best friend lived right down the street Meanwhile, sessions for Personal Myth for their quirky acoustic sound, with its from me when I was younger and her mom have yielded a pair of outtakes, “Us Stew” roots in old time folk, Little’s new album was a harpist,” Little recalled. “I used to and “Debacle,” which are set to become B- has a more modern edge. “My favorite spend all my time over there and kind of sides for the albums first two singles. music is current indie rock music,” she pluck around on it. When I was eight she Future plans include regional touring, said. “It’s my [purpose] in life to make the started giving me lessons.” videos, and more, but first the CD release harp cool. There has never been a harp as a Little notes that by default the earliest show. main instrument in an indie band, so I music she played was classical and Celtic. With such obvious dedication to her have a traditional rock set up and then the “There are standard introductory harp craft, it’s clear that for Little music holds a lead instrument is harp. I wanted to show books when you start learning. It’s just lot of power. “I like being able to positively people that the harp can sound awesome short vignettes of classical and Celtic affect people,” she said. Little cites an rather than, ‘oh! Am I in heaven right now, songs. I always just played what my impromptu performance during Occupy what’s going on?’” Little joked. teacher gave me. I really didn’t get into pop San Diego to illustrate her point. “I played She signed to Aural Gravy Records in stuff or songwriting until high school.” harp the very first night, when it was locat - January 2011, with recording beginning in Looking to expand her musical vocabu - ed in children’s park,” she said. “It was August. “Recording only took about three lary, she soon began adding to her resume. amazing all these people coming together, months, but, really, I was working on it all “I just dabble in anything other than harp hopeful for once that the world could be year,” she remarked. “I spent that whole really,” she said. fixed. I had my harp, I didn’t plan on six or seven months choosing songs [and] “I’ve never really been trained on any bringing it, but someone said I should play. orchestrating everything,” she said. other instruments, but I figured out I could Every one gathered around me when I put Personal Myth was recorded at Cabana play piano based on what I learned on my harp out. It sounds weird to talk about, Recording Studios with Twon and Aural harp, [then] throughout high school I but when I played people started crying.” Gravy owner David Miano. Little plays five taught myself the flute and clarinet.” You Her music allowed the emotions of the day instruments on the disc and provides most can also now add guitar, bass, ukulele, and to emerge. “I’m just overcome in those of the vocals, while contributing musicians melodica to that impressive list. moments,” she said. “It was like seeing the include Wrong Trousers bassist Mack At age 15 she made her first big public power of music concretely in front of you. Leighton (on four tracks), electric bassist appearance at a school talent competition And that’s why I like being a musician.” James Albers, string bassist Mack Leighton, with the newly formed Wrong Trousers. www.kelsealittle.com saxophonist Tasha Locke, guitarist Sean They took first place. Burdeaux, guitar/mandolin/pedal steel “With a band you usually have one at player Wyatt Stone, and drummer Jose least or many, many disagreements or hard Guererro. days, but it was 100% fun and smooth sail - According to the label owner Miano, his ing, because the interests were just spread introduction to Little is down to a fortu - perfectly,” she said. “I always wrote the itous YouTube visit. “I stumbled across a lyrics and our mandolin player Joseph video of Kelsea playing her harp,” Miano always wrote the chords. He didn’t like explained. “I liked what I heard and saw, writing lyrics; I didn’t like writing chords, so I watched a few more. To be honest I our bass player just wanted to play had never heard of her former band before. [laughs]. So there was no power struggles But I was so enthralled by the way she at all.” played her harp. She didn’t play it like a While she enjoyed playing in Balboa classical harpist but more like a rocker. She Park with the group, she notes the lack of wasn’t afraid to pluck those strings with boundaries between the performers and the gusto, and she sang the same way.” public. “I don’t know what it is about play - Miano immediately contacted Little and ing in the park. I mean there is no stage, asked her to send some tracks from an but people will come up to you and start experimental record she’d made. “I could talking to you while you’re in the middle tell by what I had heard so far that she was of singing or playing, and it’s so awkward a great songwriter,” he continued. “She usually,” she laughed. Little recalls an inci - knew what made a great song, and I trust - dent. “This guy came up to us and he had ed that; even though she had recorded only a camera in his hand. He came up to me, I a handful of tunes, she had a lot more in was 16 or 17 at the time and I was not her. Time has shown my hunch to be familiar with Hare Krishna. I didn’t know right.” He considers Little’s album to con - what that was and he was in Hare Krishna tain great melodies. “They hit you right garb and he came right up and he said, ‘Say where it counts, I mean the heart, of Hare Krishna.’ I thought it was a greeting course,” he said. “Throughout the mixing in another language, I don’t know [laughs]. process, her judgments about what does So I said it. And then we ended up on the

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The phone rang. CS: You each have a unique and interesting past in The first thing I noticed was the deep, truck-like voice on the other end, delivering one of music. Please tell me about it. Coco: I was six. My earliest memories are sitting in the cheeriest introductions I can remember. front of my grandfather’s phonograph, playing big “Hi! This is Lafe Dutton calling from Vermont. Howareya? I’m calling to check that you band 78 rpm records. In fourth grade I came home received my promotional package!” after an instrument demonstration at school and told I’m wondering why this folkie from Vermont is calling me in Ocean Beach. “Yes, I did, my father I wanted to play the oboe. They started me with private voice lessons instead. I went to Boston thank you. What can I do for you?” I had received his promopak about a month prior. after high school and became immersed in the folk “I got a gig in OB. I was wondering: can I rent your PA?” scene, playing coffee houses and clubs. When the rock And so it begins. musical Hair decided to open a Boston company I I rented him the PA. Set it up for him. Checked out his set. He played like he was grateful, auditioned and made the cast. We played eight shows a week at the Wilbur Theater for a whole year. It was so I booked him for another gig before he toured to the next town a few days later on the a fabulous show to be involved in. After Hair closed, I basis that A) his phone introduction was refreshingly professional, B) he had class. His kind moved to Vermont and had a country band called Coco modesty was such that I could tell that it was the product of a bigger professional music and the Lonesome Road Band for many years. We were well received and had a pick hit in Billboard and experience than the other calls I typically get (and my phone never stops ringing), and C) he Record World with a song I wrote called “New followed through on his word, like a man. England Song,” which we recorded in Nashville. I was In just a few short days I went from, “Who’s the guy from Vermont with the weird name flattered to receive the Songwriter of the Year award to: this guy is cool, serious, fun.” We hit it off. in Maine for that song and the band received the Most Promising Band award from the Eastern States And then he split town. Country Music Association. After the Lonesome Road Band, I went back to college, got classical vocal train - The phone rang. ing, and got my degree in music and education. I then Four months later, “Hey, dude, it’s Lafe! Howareya?!” taught music and drama in a K-12 school for 18 years. Rebecca Pidgeon, the actress-songwriter is a friend. “Hi Lafe! How are you? I’m at SXSW right now, so I only have a few minutes, what’s up?” She had me sing backing vocals on three of her CDs I was busy but happy to hear from him. and recorded one of my songs “MacDougall’s Men” Without any hesitation, he says, “SXSW? Oh Cool! Hey, stop by Rounder Records if you from a group of songs I call “New Songs of Auld Scotland.” I appeared on “The Conan O’Brien Show” get a chance and say hello to Ken Irwin for me. It’s been a while. Watch his face when you with her twice. That was a hoot. He is very tall! do! Hahaha!” Lafe: I started with a small independent label in I ran into Ken the very next night at a Mexican food joint that was featuring Texas Swing. Vermont where I signed and recorded projects with Ken looked at me like I was a Martian, pausing, trying to figure out who the hell I was (he Doc Watson, Dave Van Ronk, etcetera, and then went couldn’t place me), and asked how Lafe was doing. to a larger independent in California – Music for Little People – as international sales manager. There were I told Lafe about the incident the next day and he told me about his history with the no sales people, just me, so I got to make up my own man, along with his days with Warner Brothers, and then says, “I’m interested in recording title. Warner Brothers bought the label and got me as an album with you. Can you give me a quote?” a bonus. So I toured the U.S., Europe, and Hong Kong as the label rep for such artists as Sweet Honey in the Pretty soon he's flying out from the East Coast to allow his lovely partner Coco and me Rock, Ferron, Native American Projects – really cool to meet personally, check out the studio, and discuss the scope of the project. Little did I people and fun projects. Took my guitar everywhere. know that Lilla Beagle, their beloved Beagle, was part of this package deal. Anywhere they CS: You are both incredible songwriters. What does go, Lilla goes. We recorded the album. songwriting mean to you? By now I’ve recorded three albums for him and Coco. We’ve become partners, too, due Coco: For me it’s the ultimate form of expression. to our artistic affinity and functionality, as well as becoming trusted friends. And that’s why When the right marriage of words and music happens it’s a feeling like no other. The closest is falling in love. I’m the right guy to write this article. I know ‘em almost as well as Lilla does. I’ve gotten goose bumps, I’ve cried, I’ve been elated, The biggest chunk of the story falls under the heading of songwriting. In over 30 years of I’ve released a lot of crap, and I’ve become other char - music I have yet to meet anyone who asserts the craft of song as much as these two do. acters in songs and had their experiences as I’ve writ - They take the attitude of “Why bother performing or recording a song if it isn’t a great ten them. When the writing clicks it’s a total immer - sion into something bigger than me. song?” They're quite serious about it. They come in with their act together, all right, but they Lafe: A great teacher can change your life. A great are still working out lyrics right through the final mix, advancing any song if there is a novel can change your year. A great song can chance to do so. Many times I’ve watched them stop a take, unsatisfied with a lyric, take a change your moment, and I love songwriting that break, and step out side to decide to rewrite, for instance, an entirely new verse three. They accomplishes that. Everyone who’s done any kind of writing knows discuss. They laugh. They argue. They drag me into all this for third person objectivity, “Hell, the awe and the adrenaline rush that comes from you’re the producer, which do you like better, this or that? We need something that rhymes watching a character or story write itself. In the song with ‘bandito’,” and stuff like that. “Charlene” I didn’t know that the old guy in the second They are very demanding of the process. Very demanding of me. Impressively, most verse was going to turn out to be Charlene’s dad. When you write a lot, those surprises happen all the time. demanding of themselves. I've loved every bit of every long haul, because they’ve always When a song writes itself, and you can’t stop striven to be their very best as songwriters. Kind of a sacred practice for them. And it singing it for days, you know you’ve got a good one, shows. They are all over folk radio in a lot of countries. With a calendar crammed with gigs maybe even a great one. Songwriting has been my life - line, the only constant in all my years on the planet. all over the country. Everything else has changed, but the songwriting has One day I asked them, “What are you gonna do with all this? given me the same joy. Their reply: “We’re gonna tour farmers markets and live the dream! Oh, and we’re gonna It’s also a catharsis. In times of pain, grief, or fear, get an apartment in OB and move here.” They, in fact, tour for at least half the year. And it is an outlet – sometimes a meditation, sometimes an angry outburst, sometimes philosophical. At all times a they got the apartment. tool for introspection or humor. I love writing funny It’s a long story. songs, and Coco and I have spent many hours writing So, I’ll let them tell it. Meet Coco Kallis, Lafe Dutton and their iconic sidekick, Lilla. what we call steering wheel songs: verse after silly verse in and out of truck stops, Greek restaurants, and rest stops.

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When I was a teenager the songs of Bob Dylan had dying on a battlefield in Scotland in1745. I said out Our business plan is to play markets, sell CDs, and walks and head pats. a tremendous impact on me. I thought songs had the loud, “I don’t want to write this” and tried to shut it sign people up to our mailing list. Then the next time CS: What about your friend George? You trust power to change people, and I assumed everyone was out. It wouldn’t stop, so I finally said, “Okay, okay, I’ll we tour through, we see if any of those people want to him as a sort of mentor/sounding board. Most impacted like I was by music. It’s only recently that I’ve listen!” A few miles down the road I pulled over and host a house concert. Then we invite all the others artists don’t even think of this egoless aspect come to believe it’s only a minority of people that are wrote down all six verses. who signed up to come to it. We create our own audi - when it comes to their creations. affected, and that the majority of the population does - Since Lafe and I have been together, my songwrit - ence by playing to thousands every week. Like all Coco: We are lucky to have several people whom n’t even listen to music anymore except as background. ing has changed some. Now I often sit down at the sales it’s a numbers game, but we play it by support - we trust as sounding boards. Paul Miller and Mark page and write lyrics rather than “listen” for a whole ing a cause we love: eat fresh, eat safer, buy local, sup - Greenberg in Vermont are both great musicians song although the words usually come with a melody port your community, and know where your food who give us good feedback. Sometimes we use it attached. If I come up with something that really comes from. to change things, sometimes we don’t, but it speaks to me, I will take it to him. He is a good editor CS: What are your goals with your music? always holds the mirror up to check on how solid and has great suggestions for improving how you say Coco: I play some guitar, can make chords on the you feel about what you have created. And George something, for guiding you away from the cliches. My piano, and dabble at the fiddle. My unrealistic goal is is the greatest supporter and friend one could melodies are usually quite simple and straightforward to become a good multi-instrumentalist so that I can ever hope for. He tells you what he thinks when and he often comes up with a whole new melodic play what I hear in my head. The problem is, I’m too you ask, even if it’s not what you want to hear. He direction and feel for what I’ve written. We’ve also old now for that to ever happen, not enough time left! is ever the voice of reason yet he is amazing on written a lot of songs together in the car, just tossing So I guess it’s a dream and not a goal. I want to pursue how he encourages us to keep on going. His input lines back and forth. But I also have a lot of songs no having other recording artists cover our songs, both and support are invaluable. Everyone should have one has ever heard. for the thrill of it and the “mailbox money,” which a George in their life. would help my one encompassing goal. That goal is to Lafe: Working for record companies I saw artists be able to continue to write, record, and perform. fail all the time because they wouldn’t take input. That’s how I want to spend the rest of my life. Of course, others failed because they did take Lafe: We tell people we play farmers markets for the input. The ones who succeeded took input from same reason farmers farm: to get rich and famous. people they’d known a long time and trusted com - Everybody laughs, and they should. Our goal is to get pletely. The hard part is giving up something to the financial level where we can tour farmers mar - when you really feel your mentor is wrong, but kets four months a year, tour house concerts or seri - you have to. And they are going to be wrong some ous listening venues internationally four months a of the time. But the reason you chose them is year, and take four months to record with some relax because they are right more often than you are. time in there. They have an objectivity you can’t have. It’s better I’d say the goal is to be happy, but we already are. that they are wrong some of the time than you When we first started doing this, my shrink asked me, being wrong too much of the time. “Now that you’re living your dream, what do you George founded RadioFolk.org and listens to A great teacher can dream about?” hundreds of hours of acoustic music every month. I dream about performing on “Prairie Home He knows acoustic music, songwriting, and great change your life. A great Companion” and having Willie Nelson cover my production inside and out. We’ve been friends for farmer’s drought song called “Prayin’ for Rain.” But as over 35 years. I used to send him other people’s novel can change your long as I keep having that incredible, euphoric feeling I music to critique when I was working for record year. A great song can get when I write a song, then my main goal is simply labels. He’s a treasure in every way. to write another song. It’s like sex: once you’ve had it He’s not our only sounding board: we have 12 change your moment, you can’t stop. people whom we ask for advice when it comes to critiquing songs, mixes, and even artwork. Four and I love songwriting CS: Lilla. She plays no instruments whatsoever. Yet, are hardcore fans that we met playing music. Four she’s an integral component of the band. What’s up are lifelong friends, and four are industry people. with the dog? that accomplishes that. For [our CD] Big Bang , we sent final mixes to all CS: Farmers markets are not usually considered the Coco: Lilla is a joy. She is a rescue beagle who was obvious choice for a touring mechanism. But it’s 12 and asked them to choose two songs to cut, for — Lafe Dutton supposed to be my foster dog when I was a volunteer what sets you apart from the pack. How did that example. And we did it, even though one of the for BONES (Beagles of New England States). She had happen? songs I was very, very hot for. We have family and friends we’ll stay with as we been abused and came to me totally terrified of every - You might be an excellent songwriter, singer, tour who never ask us to play them a song! Imagine a Coco: I’m letting Lafe answer this one. thing and everyone. I finally got her to trust me and and musician, but that doesn’t make you an excel - poet visiting you and you don’t take the opportunity to Lafe: Our mentor, Jeri Goldstein of PerformingBiz dot when I was told to take her to meet some prospective lent judge of which songs are the best, and it does - get a private hearing. It astonishes me, but that’s simply com told us to go where the people are until the peo - adopters I told them no, that she couldn’t go through n’t make you an excellent producer, marketer, or my bias. Some folks like cooking, some like eating out. ple will come to you. We played on the streets of that again. She is a “foster failure” although I’d call it a basket weaver. In fact, I consider myself an excel - Boston, and friends thought we were crazy. Yet it paid CS: When it comes to songwriting, you are very success for all of us. Lafe worked really hard with her lent songwriter but I wouldn’t use that adjective all our bills. We fell in love with playing farmers mar - “free” in that process, yet very “pragmatic” – the sci - and she adores him now, too, although it took a year for anything else I do, including singing or any of kets: the cause, the atmosphere, and the like-minded ence and art of becoming “one.” How does this before she would even come up to him. When we the two instruments I play. So I have to find process work for you? people who bought our CDs by the pound. Other musi - moved to San Diego, Dog Beach, where we go every experts and trust them. cians and promoters turn their noses up when they Lafe: Simple: we usually have the music or a melody morning when we’re here, worked wonders for her Not to say that if you strongly disagree you hear this. But as Coco says, “If Woody Guthrie was before we start writing, or one of us comes up with a and then going on the road and playing markets she can’t veto, but you better not do it very often. As alive today he’d be playing farmer’s markets.” first verse and we find the music for it. Then we free got exposed to lots of people and really became a dif - doctors like to say, “You can tell a patient what Making art pay has never been easy. Steven King write – no editing, just sing and keep singing, write ferent dog. She’s amazing. People can’t believe that they need to do, but you can’t make horses out of is quoted as saying, “You can get rich at writing, but more verses, write until the chandelier falls down and she doesn’t have to be on a leash and just stays in the donkeys.” Or at least that’s what I’d say if I were a you can’t make a living at it.” Most musicians who you just can’t write no more. performance area with us. She’s more famous than we doctor. Then take a break and edit. claim to make a living at it are actually not perform - are. Market managers often ask where she is before ing, and they are kidding themselves. They teach gui - CS: To whom do you listen in terms of Coco: “Free” and “pragmatic” describe Lafe’s song - they even say hello to us! She has her own Facebook tar, they run open mics, they buy and sell instruments, influence? writing much more than mine, I think. I still struggle page, Lilla Beagle, and is our “spokesdog.” Wherever they write jingles for radio or write for TV shows. Coco: Hands down, it’s the Everly Brothers for me. mightily with the Censor, who shuts me down before I we go, she goes. It’s a rare occasion that we’ll take a Dumb. Did you want to make a living or make music? That’s how I learned to sing harmony when I was really get going a lot of the time. Many of the really gig if she can’t come. Look closely and you’ll find her They could just as easily line themselves up with a a kid by learning both of their parts and singing good songs I’ve written have come to me all at once somewhere on all our promo and CDs. Where’s Lilla? cause they are passionate about: cancer, animal res - along. It gave me the love of real close harmony because I just start hearing them, both words and Lafe: Lilla is like our child, and in some ways relieves cue, or the homeless. And then go out and help these and phrasing where two voices become one voice. melody, in my head. Then if I’m patient and really stop the strain of Coco’s and my being together in small groups raise money to put on benefit concerts. And I think Lafe and I get that a lot in our singing and listen, I get the whole song. I never know when spaces 24 hours a day for months at a time. She has get paid just like the soundman or the rental hall. All together and it’s always a thrill for me. I’m influ - that’s going to happen... when the Muse insists on needs, we love her, and her well being is of utmost the information to do it is out there but musicians get enced by whatever I listen to whether it’s pointing singing to me. I’ve had a lot of surprises and have even importance to us. Since we tour markets, it’s usually stuck in the “I’m special, I make art” trap. You’re not had songs come that I really didn’t want to write but 90 degrees plus outside. We have to find dog friendly special. You’re a plumber. Get good at it and go unplug the Muse wouldn’t shut up so I HAD to listen and let restaurant patios, dog friendly hotels, we pay a higher Continued on page 12 toilets. Wanting fame is not the same as wanting to them through. I was once driving down Interstate 89 price than dog-free travelers, and she needs lots of make music. in Vermont and started hearing this song about a man www.sandiegotroubadour.com 9 NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ramblin’ Bluegrass CORNER

by Dwight Worden GETTING ONE ’S LEARN ON unlike other audio programs, ProTools required proprietary hardware be pur - “Ya learn sumpin’ new every day!” chased along with the software just to TROUBADOUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY SDBS website at: www.sandiegoblue - said the mechanic, wiping the sleeve of run it. With the release of Version 9, Sven-Erik Seaholm Sunday evening, October 9, 2011, was grass.org. his grease smeared coveralls across his PT finally “cut the cord” from the a remarkably great event in San Diego. It 201 delves even more deeply into ROLAND WHITE COMING TO SAN equally soiled forehead. hardware, making the software applica - was the 10th anniversary party/fundrais - things like audio buffers, file manage - DIEGO I watched as he negotiated just how tion available to all audio users. er for the San Diego Troubadour . The ment, TDM processing, and the Smart exactly to close the slightly crumpled The only remaining challenges, auspicious event was hosted at the Tool (a personal fave), as well as intro - hood of my ’95 Ford Aspire and then, lie in just how different working beautiful new Sunset Temple behind ductions to keyboard shortcuts and thought a bit more about those words. within ProTools would be, compared to Claire de Lune’s on University Avenue in automation. Sure, it’s pretty much just one of those my current setup and how easily it North Park. The room was packed with 210m: Music Production Techniques is colloquialisms that lose impact and could be integrated into my produc - musicians and music supporters of all really the class that turns up the “fun types, and the stage rocked with per - meaning over time, like “Have a nice tion workflow. I needed not only meter” with more “real-world”-type formances by some of San Diego’s top day.” or “Don’t let the bedbugs bite,” hands-on experience with ProTools, stuff, like comping multiple takes using musicians. But, what struck me most but it still left me thinking as I drove but also a guide…a well-informed playlists, in-depth Beat Detective cover - about this event is what a great job the away: Do I? Shouldn’t I? expert to lead me through the bowels of age, sampling, sound replacement, little ol’ Troubadour has done at being One of the things I love about writ - the software’s functionality, answer my arranging, advanced mixing and the “glue” that holds San Diego’s ing this column is, in fact, the oppor - myriad questions, hypothetical situa - automation, and a more thorough acoustic and independent music scene Roland White (next to Andy) on the Andy tunity to learn new products and tech - tions, and other digressions, and just investigation of the time and sanity- together. Griffith Show nologies through the process of review - plain get me to a point where I can do saving ProTools keyboard shortcuts. Here we were, all in the same room, ing them. Each new product presents what I need to do! My personal experience was actually drinking and snacking, chatting and min - Roland White of the famous White itself as another potential tool in my The Recording Arts Center quite gratifying and a lot of fun! Every gling, playing and listening, everyone family is coming to San Diego for a con - chest, another option to explore when (www.tracsd.com) at Rancho course was laid out quite intuitively from the likes of Steve Poltz, to Wayne cert at AMSD Concerts on Sunday, experiencing technical difficulties or Bernardo’s Studio West is a school for and each moves along at an invigorat - Rice, to Peter Sprague and everyone in November 20. Roland will be joined by a navigating through a creative impasse. audio engineering and production that between. Many of us are heavy into our ing pace, yet each instructor made powerful lineup that includes Herb Perhaps this is why I use not just one offers several courses as part of its 904 own musical niches, and in the pre- themselves available to every question Pedersen, Bill Bryson, and Blaine or two programs, but several, often class-hour Occupational Associate Troubadour days we had little opportuni - and insight, so that the actual learning Sprouse. during the same session! I like to track Degree (OAS) program. As many of ty to interact with or read about our fel - experience was as organic as it was Roland White has played with Bill and edit in Sony Vegas. I switch over these are ProTools-centric, there are low creative artists, but one could feel well-organized. That direct one-on-one Monroe as one of his Bluegrass Boys as to Presonus Studio One for MIDI and several additional classes with more the cross genre camaraderie in the communication that I feel is so crucial well as with Flatt and Scruggs. Roland virtual instruments, as well as take narrowly focused areas of instruction. room, and for that we owe the to gaining a clear perspective and real - and brother Clarence White, perhaps the advantage of its tempo matching func - The TRAC Certificate of Completion Troubadour a big thank you! most respected and innovative flat pick ly retain what’s being learned was Plastered on the walls around the tions for loops and effects. I open Packages include, for example, the guitar player of all time, formed the always abundant and available.. room were all the covers from all 10 audio in Celemony Melodyne for surgi - Music Creation Package , which pro - Kentucky Colonels in the 1960s, a band As the program continues, its pace years of the Troubadour ’s existence. If cal solutions to pitch and time. I often vides instruction in Audio Recording that had great success. Roland also seems to quicken along with your com - you are a bluegrasser, no doubt some of master using IK Multimedia’s T-Racks, Techniques, ProTools 101, Signal played with the hugely popular Country fort level within ProTools. By the end the indie rockers, singer songwriters, my main audio editor is Sound Forge Processing with Waves, and The Art of Gazette in the 1970s before moving on to of the 210m course it almost felt like a blues artists and the like may be names and CD Architect burns it all to CDs. Mixing. play mandolin in the Nashville Bluegrass dead run! This is to say that a bit of unfamiliar to you. But, you would recog - That’s six different programs that come I attended classes for the ProTools Band for many years. Since that time homework and a lot of focused con - nize two covers featuring Summergrass, into play on a near daily basis. Operator Certification Package , Roland began performing with his own centration on each student’s part is one cover featuring Dennis Caplinger of Roland White Band and doing duet per - The most notable program that until which is made up of four courses: required to keep pace and truly get the Bluegrass Etc. and the Tim Flannery formances with his wife Diane Buska. recently I had never really used on any ProTools 101, ProTools 110, ProTools most from these courses but really, Band, a cover on Nickel Creek, and one Roland is a true living legend of blue - basis was ProTools . Many of the rea - 201 , and ProTools 210m . Each course that’s the case with any educational on Chris Stuart of Chris Stuart and grass music who is not to be missed. sons for this have already been well runs for five straight four and a half- endeavor, is it not? Backcountry. You would likely also know Herb Pedersen is also a force to be covered in an article I wrote several hour days, with official Avid certifica - the covers on Shawn Rohlf, and the Considering my years of recording reckoned with. Here is a listing of some years ago titled “Why I Hate ProTools.” tion testing at its conclusion. cover on the 7th Day Buskers. So, yes, experience, I was pleasantly surprised of the artists he has played with: Earl In short, I have avoided it like the 101 brings you gently into the bluegrass has been and still is an impor - that in addition to the knowledge Scruggs, The Dillards, Old and In the plague. However, a majority of ProTools experience, introducing essen - tant part of the Troubadour ’s coverage. gleaned specific to ProTools, there were Way, David Grissman, Peter Rowan, recordists are now using ProTools at tial concepts like making audio and And, you would know from the lots of little tips, tricks and techniques Vassar Clements, Gram Parsons, Emmy home studios as well as major commer - MIDI recordings, basic editing tech - Troubadour that all of the musicians and I picked up along the way as well. Lou Harris, Tony Rice, Dan Fogelberg, cial facilities. After turning away several niques, and introductions to mixing, bands covered are doing what we in the These will undoubtedly apply to my Stephen Stills, Linda Ronstadt, Kris potential clients who wanted their loops, and working with plug-in bluegrass community are doing: playing Kristofferson, John Prine, Jackson day-to-day work, regardless of what and pursuing the music we love because work delivered exclusively in the effects. Browne, John Denver, Chris Hillman, and software I’m using. we love it, not because it is commercial - ProTools format, I began to question 110 gets into configuring and rout - Leland Sklar. Nothing more need be said For those serious about a career in ly popular, but because it speaks to our the wisdom of such an inflexible policy. ing MIDI, hardware settings, using vir - about this great writer, singer, and per - recording or those who desire to mas - heart and is authentic. Now that’s some One chronic obstacle was that tual instruments, grouping, looping, former. ter the industry standard tools required glue we all share! and using RTAS plug-ins. Bill Bryson, bass playing vocalist of to create high-quality, professional- Four people founded the Troubadour the group, has a similar resume and is 10 years ago, taking a chance that San sounding recordings, I highly recom - well known locally as a member of mend calling the Recording Arts Diego would support a local, roots- Blaine Sprouse Bluegrass Etc. was the Center at Studio West (858-592-0556). based music newspaper. Sadly, two of fiddle player for the super group Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going those four died unexpectedly a few Alabama, playing on several of their to back to my homework! years after the launch. So, I take a chart-topping hits. So, if you have a moment to recognize, after ten years, chance, pick up a ticket for what looks Sven-Erik Seaholm is an award-winning that two incredible people, Liz Abbott to be a great show. The show is at independent record producer and Kent Johnson, have kept this little 7:30pm, Sunday, November 20. Tickets (www.kaspro.com). He performs at the paper alive and thriving through perse - are $20 in advance and available, along Songwriters Acoustic Nights Third verance and hard work. Thank you to with more information, online at: Anniversary Concert on November 20th at them, and to the photographers, writers, http://amsdconcerts.com/November.html Swedenborg Hall with Gregory Page, Robin and performers who help make it all or call (619) 303-8176. Henkel, and LA wunderkind Brad Carter. work, from everyone in the bluegrass If you are interested in learning more And yes, Sven does ProTools! community of San Diego. about the bluegrass music scene in San SDBS ST. MARK’S BLUERGASS Diego, visit the SDBS website at CONCERT, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 www.sandiegobluegrass.org. The SDBS The San Diego Bluegrass Society, in is a non-profit organization sponsoring conjunction with St. Mark’s United regular jams session and get togethers, Methodist Church, will be presenting an instructed slow jam, the their annual bluegrass concert Sunday, Summergrass festival (with co-sponsor - November 13, 4:30pm, at the church ing partner North County Bluegrass and located at 3502 Clairemont Drive. The Folk Club), a school outreach program, a theme for this year’s event is honoring program bringing free music to nursing the father of Bluegrass music, Bill homes, assisted living facilities and the Monroe, on the 100th anniversary of his like, camp-outs, and other activities. birth. Details are being finalized, but it Read about it all on the SDBS website, looks like there will be four bands per - and then do yourself a favor: Step out forming the music of Bill Monroe. and attend one of these events and get Admission is free and the public is wel - involved. You won’t regret it. come. Donations will be solicited in this fundraiser for the church and for the SDBS. For more information visit the

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Radio Daze Hosing Down Philosophy, Art, Culture, & Music by José Sinatra

(I LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO THEM StAgeS

The first acoustic trio I was a part of existed for about a four-month period, over by Peter Bolland pleasure to express what one has 40 years ago. This was back East in the learned?” Playing music with friends, heady (in every sense) countdown to the THE WISDOM OF MUSIC dancing at a wedding, or blasting your end of high school. Two of my fellow mem - favorite song a little too loud in the car is bers in the Wheaton (Maryland) Choir, usic is an opportunity. Music is just plain fun. And fun is the body’s way Steve Rice and Lynn Gianini, just happened an invitation. Music is an open of rewarding itself for doing such a great to be dead ringers for Richard and Karen Mwindow to a world beyond the job of staying alive all these years. Carpenter, whose songs had “only just by Jim McInnes walls of our conceptual mind. For musi - Let beauty happen . Something amazing begun” to influence and hold sway over our cians and listeners alike, music cleanses happens when you awaken to the conflu - budding teen libidos. To the public at large, Viva Troubadour! our souls and washes smooth the rough ence of elements that make up this now the Carpenters’ music was soothing, pleas - edges of our lives. Music heals. If not for moment. Beauty is not wrestled to the ing, inoffensive. With us, it also got us hot The Hose: Birds disappear when he’s near here was an article about the music, most of us would go insane. ground by muscle nor is it trapped by ‘n’ bothered and hot ‘n’ buttered; its sweet Troubadour in the Union-Tribune Music is the most powerful and myste - cleverness. Beauty, like happiness, is the rious of art forms. We enjoy its intrinsic natural byproduct of a well-lived life, sugar was thick and sticky – not modest could be if they could learn something of Tlast month. I loved it. It’s about enough to conceal its adventurous throb of time this rag got its props! value, but we also learn from its potent born into fullness when you stop seeking specificity, I decided; perhaps I could pro - presence. Music is a masterful teacher. sweet, sticky sex. In short, their songs were The Troubadour has matured in the and start allowing. Simply do what is vide an example. So I constructed and After over 40 years as a performing musi - groovy makeout numbers, a memorable decade since its inception. Today, if I were yours to do, let go of the outcome, and let painted a big placard that said “Free Phil cian, here is what I’ve learned from the soundtrack to our young carnal escapades. to see a copy at my dentist’s office, I’d the joy of the work sink in. Beauty is the Spector and Lindsay Lohan” and raised it wisdom of music. Yeah – makeout music for cupid’s couch, reach for the Troubadour before I would eternal presence shining through the veil proudly in front of the TV cameras, which Practice . Transformation is possible if of the fleeting moments of our lives. It is with a cherry on top. any of the other offerings (like Modern unfortunately didn’t catch some reeking you are willing to discipline yourself and seen, heard, and felt; never grasped, pos - So we formed what had to be one of the Orthodontics or the LARGE PRINT Reader’s malcontent tearing it from my hands, rip - practice the behaviors you wish to embody. sessed or controlled. When you try to earliest “tribute bands” known to man, Digest .) ping it up, and threatening to kick my (pos - We become better songwriters by writing hold it you lose it. woman, or Republican. The first thing I read when I get a copy terior) if I didn’t (get the hell out of Dodge). songs. We become more compassionate by Become an instrument . Just as a guitar of a new issue of the Troubadour is my Steve did a bit of back-up harmonizing I get it now: free speech for some. Not all. practicing compassion. We become more is a channel through which music flows own column, “Radio Daze,” to see what and (unlike Richard Carpenter) played the Sorry, Phil and Lindsay. I tried. courageous by practicing courage. There is from the musician to our ears, so too our the hell I wrote. Unlike some writers with only instrument, his guitar. Lynn sang lead, (Back to the Folk You saga:) no short cut. Just begin to behave like the bodies, thoughts, words, and deeds are their new-fangled word processing doo - having perfected the Karen voice after And so that night, which we called the person you want to be. New habits will the instruments with which we play our dads, I write my columns by hand, on my countless hous of listening and practice – Night of Parochial Paranoia everafter, got form as old habits fall away. It isn’t mysteri - life-song. The instrument does not make other hand! I wash my hands only after often at parties when she and I had ended us quite a bit of press and a great deal of ous at all. Action creates transformation. the music, the musician does. The instru - mailing editor Liz Abbott a Polaroid of the Do what you want to be. up in some dark corner or under some big increased interest and letters to the editor ment is the means by which the unmani - hand I wrote the article on. Imagine what Stay in the moment . Unlike other art table, engaging in yet another round of but it didn’t matter anyway because school fest is made manifest. As the composer I have to go through if I want to change a forms, music happens only in this now Bucking Bronco. was ending and Steve and Lynn and I were weaves threads of memory, longing, word. That probably seems quaint and moment. A painting, on the other hand, We rehearsed our act for several weeks each heading in different directions, to dif - melody, rhythm, and rhyme into a song, time-consuming, but it’s the way I learned hangs statically on the wall and it is the so too the constituent elements that make after school at Steve’s very big house – his ferent states. to write. viewer who controls the experience. We up our lives are woven together by an parents were usually gone – and soon I headed West, where I met Craig Now, back to the U-T article… decide when and for how long to look, unseen hand into a work of singular knew we had something pretty entertaining Ingraham and Debra Masterson. Forty years I was especially surprised by Liz’s com - the eyes freely wandering across the can - beauty and power. Find the courage to be and actually very, very good. Soon enough later, we’ve formed an acoustic trio – one ment, “We pay our writers…” Really? I vas. Music robs us of this autonomy as your instrument, that is, live your life, in we had become the major draw at the instrument (guitar, again) and three voices, guess the beers I have at the annual holi - we fall under its spell, drawn inexorably a way that honors its sacred source. Friday night “CoffeeHouses,” which the doing Craig’s own quite-charming originals. day party comprise my pay (and the ten deeper into the present. In this sweet sur - The courage of intimacy . Are you brave school’s folk club had recently instigated in Except for Craig having to come down from render we are unburdened of the exhaust - copies of each issue I take from in front of enough to let all your defenses drop? Are our (candle-lit) cafeteria. Los Angeles when we perform, it’s lots of ing task of egoic control and slip instead the Ken Cinema!) you willing to be seen as you are, These much-anticipated little hippy fests fun and we’ve been having a blast, particu - into a liberating selflessness. Usually Seriously, though, I don’t write this col - unguarded, naked, bereft of all pretence? were quickly springing up at other high larly at Rebecca’s in South Park (won’t you caught up in the twin thought streams of umn for money, I write it because, in a The courage to allow real intimacy schools in the county, and quite soon it stop by and see us?). past and present, we rarely experience the momentary lapse of reason eight years requires a deep sense of self-acceptance – wouldn’t be rare for Folk You (our chosen A Folk You reunion always had seemed freedom of this now moment. Music the conviction that who you are, just as ago, I claimed to be a writer! name) to be the featured group at three or destined to be, and with Karen Carpenter reminds us and brings us back. What you are, is enough. This is what makes four different locations on the same gone, it seemed increasingly necessary. Not Etcetera. beauties would be revealed if we lived our master musicians so compelling. They’re evening. Three voices, one instrument, and to show anybody “how it’s done” – we Congratulations to my brother, Rick, on life as music and surrendered to it with fearless. We can’t take our eyes off them. we did the Carpenters proud. Until the con - were never delusional, just frisky – but to his 11/11/11 marriage to the lovely Laurie. the same willingness? They somehow find a way to let every - Find the natural rhythm . When playing troversy. remind ourselves and our own contempo - (Personal: Rick, I would have flown to thing fall away except the truth of this with other musicians, and even in solo By this period, I had innocently believed raries of the fine music and the fun times – Chicago for the wedding, but my moment, and their honesty becomes a performance, there is always a rhythm that we’d all truly learned something – or like good carpenters we had all yearned to Troubadour paycheck wouldn’t even pay mirror in which we see our own authen - underway and it is our task to find it and several things – from the great Rev. Dr. polish the wood one more time. Our 10th or for the call to an airline reservation agent.) tic life emerging. fall into it. This requires deep listening, Be tender and tough . Great music Martin Luther King. The importance of a 20th or even 40th high school reunion back In December’s column, I will give you character’s content over physical appear - rapt attention, and the longing for union. requires a light touch and relentless heart. East would be an ideal time and place. my annual look back at the year almost When you allow your own body’s ance, when applied to our trio, would seem Novice musicians often overdo it. They Or would have, had Lynn not been killed finished, using my predictions from last rhythms to align with the rhythm around to bestow a primacy on our music that play too much, they play too loud, and in a plane crash in Chicago in 1979 and January’s Troubadour as my guide. you, the walls of the limited self dissolve would override any perceived cosmetic they play too hard. They mistake tough - Steve in Vietnam in 1972. My own soul has Tell your friends. leaving only boundless awareness. irregularity, but things turned out a bit dif - ness for talent. Only later do they discov - been under attack – incidents like those Bringing this same attentiveness to all er that real power lies in subtlety. Their ferently with us during our much-anticipat - two above, killing it bit by bit over the aspects of your life creates the opportuni - eagerness is understandable – we all mis - ed debut at a venerable Catholic school. decades, with joys like music working hard ty to move into accord with the energies take bluster for mastery at first. In music, The principal or generalissimo or what - to piece it back together. around you, enhancing both your effec - as in life, real strength lies in the ability ever he’s called at places like that refused Treasured always on my living room wall tiveness and your joy. to be tough and tender all in the same to let us go on until we “corrected,” as he is a large blowup of a Polaroid that a very Find the balance between effort and moment. Let there be silence and put it, our “inappropriate and uncalled for” cute girl took backstage at that Catholic effortlessness . The best musicians know restraint, but strike boldly when the time appearance, being no more specific than school so very long ago, as Lynn and Steve that the ideal is only realized in the mys - is right. that before turning his back and angrily and I waited to do the show we never terious alchemy where effort and effort - Surrender . If we do it right, music rushing away. would. It’s perhaps five or six minutes lessness merge. Those who try too hard overpowers us and takes us over. It sets We had heard that this school had a before that angry prefect would burst our or not hard enough are equally doomed. the rhythm of our heart, binds the meter A good rule of thumb is to put vigorous rigid dress code but hadn’t expected it to bubble. On the left is dear Steve Rice, smil - of our breath, flushes our face, fires our effort into the practicing process, but on extend to visiting entertainers. And we ing through his blond Buster Brown scruff. soul, and frees us from the arid drudgery stage let it fly. The same rule applies in were certainly not unwashed – Lynn and I Center is beautiful Lynn, shining like her of our intellectualized existence. So too life. Show up prepared, then get out of had taken an hour-long bubble bath at voice and smile, so like Karen Carpenter, so our lives can awaken from their dreary your own way. slumber when we stop struggling and Steve’s house that very afternoon – and our close to me then, to her left. Yup, me there, stage attire was always freshly dry- Take the lead, but be guided . Having the surrender to the energies of the cosmos smiling, costumed once again as Jesus courage to step forward and lead – in a cleaned. flowing through and around us. By open - Christ, who was a Carpenter too. difficult moment of parenting, in the (At this point, I must indulge in a four- ing our ears, our hearts and our minds – The Craig Ingraham Band will play at 7pm struggle for social justice, or in a guitar decade flash-forward, and I promise to be this is how we learn from the wisdom of on Thursday, November 17, at Rebecca’s, solo – is essential. But every leader knows brief:) music. 3015 Juniper St. in South Park. that the most important quality in leader - Peter Bolland is a professor at Southwestern I stumbled upon that Occupy Civic ship is attention. Listen, perceive, and feel Center/Woodstock-On-Concrete by accident College where he teaches eastern and western phi - with the utmost sensitivity and be willing losophy, ethics, world religions, and mythology. on a recent weekend and became pleased to be guided by the truth of what is. Off campus he is a writer, speaker, and singer- with the participants’ insistance on voicing Play . There’s a reason they call it play - songwriter. You can find him on Facebook at their feelings about whatever it was they ing music. Despite the years of discipline www.facebook.com/peter.bolland.page or write to were feeling. And I felt very good for them and hard work that lay behind musical him at [email protected] that the media seemed interested in feel - mastery, in the end it is from a deep sense ings that could only seem to be defined in of joy and fun that music arises. As very broad generalities. How much better it Confucius asked, “Is it not after all a www.sandiegotroubadour.com 11 NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR highway’s song

came next and I have also experienced a by Beston Barnett Coco & Lafe, continued from page 9 very safe life on a hill in Vermont. I could have stayed in my gardens and never he Creole Choir of Cuba is per - The Creole Choir of Cuba out what I like or what I don’t like. I risked putting myself out there or my forming tonight, so on the off think Dave Rawlings is an amazing har - security. But the Muse doesn’t always Tchance you’ve picked this paper A Glimpse into the Folk Tradition mony singer and I’m in awe of the notes just sing to me. Sometimes she kicks me up the day it hit newsstands, you can wrangle a date, head to UCSD, cross your he comes up with. I love Dinah in the butt. She said, “You’ve never been of Afro- Carribean Music fingers that tickets haven’t sold out, and Washington and I have immense respect a wandering troubadour. Just go for it.” make a marvelous Tuesday night of it in for Emmylou Harris. Her voice is really And so I did. this not-quite-so-backwoods town of beautiful and she has immaculate taste Lafe: I’m naïve. I’ve proved it over and ours. in songs, although as a former vocal over again in my life. I believe in burning Recorded or in person, this 10-piece teacher I’d like to work with her on dic - the boats – do what you love and don’t vocal group presents interpretations from tion. Then there’s Don Henley, John worry about the money. It’s an irrespon - the Afro-Caribbean folk tradition that are Prine, Dylan, George Jones...I could fill sible lifestyle. But overall it’s worked. I textured and scholarly and very, very pages with the list. loved working for record companies, I intense. The term Afro-Caribbean covers Lafe: If I want to write but don’t feel loved raising kids, I loved writing songs a broad family of musics as speciated as inspired, I can fix that in 30 minutes by through it all. Now that I’ve only got a finches in the Galapagos, but to the glob - listening to John Prine, Randy Newman, decade or two (at best) on this side of al audience it’s often all compounded and mislabeled as reggae or salsa or even just or Tom Waits. Currently, Adele or Old the grass all I am going to do is what I Latin. The Creole Choir of Cuba, howev - Crow Medicine Show sends me scram - love. I simply refuse to do anything else. er, exists in a very specific spot in the bling for a pen and paper. Gorecki’s Currently that means writing songs and Caribbean spectrum: they are the sons “Third Symphony” makes me reach for performing them. We have bills to pay, and daughters of Haitian refugees living the scotch, Kleenex, and a guitar. Joni expenses to cover. If one way doesn’t in Cuba, and they are looking back to Mitchell, Prince, Dylan: three different work we’ll find another way. I believe their Haitian musical roots. writers with totally different styles of there is always a way, and the people Haiti and Cuba are two very different writing. Going to a Steve Poltz or Jesse who don’t find it simply quit looking. countries, politically and culturally, sepa - Winchester concert, or just about any Sometimes when we aren’t seeing a way rated by 50 miles of water, with histories The Creole Choir of Cuba live concert, makes me want to quit it’s because we’re stuck in an old per - deeply intertwined. Haiti became the first breathing and just write all the time. spective. Latin American country to throw off the bass, and the responding voices are bro - graphed dance routines that mirror the It’s not just musicians. Many of my I know at least three different San colonial yoke after a slave revolt in the ken up into overlapping parts that feed a narratives in the songs and show off some songs come from emotion stirred up by a Diego musicians who could be touring late 18th century. The first Haitians in kind of momentum in the compositions. of their traditional dances. The women movie, a book, or even [once] a dog food Cuba were actually French colonists flee - and making money at it full time, but And while the backing vocals sometimes wear bright West African patterned dress - commercial. True. they’re stuck in the old model: they think ing the revolt, and they brought their slaves with them. Hardships and oppres - feel precise and well-rehearsed, the leader es and head scarves. I haven’t seen any of There’s also a reality of anti-influ - they need to find some company or sive dictators caused successive waves of is never anything but raw, driving from this, but I’m getting excited about it, and ence: some artists make me want to somebody to pay them. What they really Haitian refugees into Spanish-speaking deep in the diaphragm. not least because I’ve come to trust retire the guitar: we just did a 45-minute should do is find a niche and fill it, and Cuba, straight through into the present Probably the closest American analog UCSD’s concert series more than just pre-show for Red Molly in Fort Collins, they need to build a team, which can day. These refugees settled in the Eastern to this kind of singing would be Sweet about any other cultural venue in San and they raved about our writing and come out of their fan base to start. No and Central zones of the island in num - Honey in the Rock – a long-standing Diego. performance during their show. But I one ever, not ever, made it without a bers enough to hold onto their languages, women’s vocal group that does heartfelt The genre of World Music has been was convinced I’d never play again team. And unless you are top 40 radio, or their religions, and their music. A majori - arrangements of old African-American more or less on the decline in the States because they are so world-class perfect. win the TV sweepstakes, you need to ty of Haitians – at home and in Cuba – spirituals. There is the same serious look - since its peak with the smash success of It was inspiring and incredibly deflating. focus on a niche, whether that’s a partic - speak Creole, which is a pragmatic ing-back, the same vocal immediacy, even the Buena Vista Social Club – another many of the same themes permeate the import from Cuba – in 1996. “World Listening to Gillian Welch and David ular type of country music fan, reggae melange of French, Yoruba, Spanish, and groups’ choices of songs. The Creole Music” is that most insultingly named of Rawlings’ new recording, The Harrow protest songs, or music to walk dogs by. other languages. Singing in Creole gives Choir’s songs are vernacular narratives, genres – implying that all music made and the Harvest , where they wrote all the Otherwise, you’ll end up with dust on the Choir’s songs a distinctly African peppered with references to both outside the U.S. should be lumped into a songs, play all the instruments, and sing sound: the words themselves are another your CDs and working day jobs all your Christian and African religions, but the corner – but record stores (are there still all the parts is beautifully devastating. life. layer of echoes starting in Cuba and pass - ing back through Haitian slavery under main theme seems always to be resist - record stores?) need to label their bins Like Jackson Browne or Mozart, these Come to think of it, is it me living an the French and back further to West ance: resistance to slavery, resistance to somehow. In San Diego’s live music ven - folks are unfairly talented. They should irresponsible life style or is it all the Africa. oppression, resistance to daily hardships. ues, World Music generally means any all be shot. musicians who don’t burn their boats? The ten members of the Creole Choir Here’s an example: music rooted elsewhere, except maybe CS. Your music path is your lifestyle. There is so much more to the Coco and of Cuba are all classically college-trained Neg anwo, gade neg anba! reggae or Latin pop, which are so popular You don’t wait for the “Man” to find Lafe story. Find out more at singers from Camaguey – a city in the Mize yoap pase, oh! here that they can claim their own dis - you in order to make your dreams www.CocoLafe.com Cuban interior with a large Haitian popu - Ba yo lavi, tande, ba yo limie souple. tinct names. The World Music decline has come true. You just hit the road and lation – and they pursue this “roots” a number of contributing factors: the trust it. Chuck Schiele is an award-winning music Black people above, look at the black people recession, the collapse of the CD industry, professional for 25 years as a songwriter, music in addition to performing classical below! Coco: There comes a point in life where repertoire with the provincial choir. This changing tastes, but the end result is that performer, record producer, events pro - The misery they suffer, oh! very few new high-profile world music you recognize your own mortality, when explains a lot about the unique sound of ducer, music writer and enthusiastic San Listen: let them live, give them some light. acts come through San Diego compared the clock starts ticking louder. I have Diego Music fan. their project: it feels rigorously researched And though most of the audience at with the scene ten years ago. What was been a lot of people in my life and time, and arranged, and the actual singing is this show won’t be able to parse the briefly a flow of exciting international to butcher a phrase from a song. I’ve had technically powerful, though not at all stiff or “academic”. Their debut CD, words (I myself speak both Spanish and groups coming through venues like the a wealth of diverse experiences where I French, but I’m still lost in Creole), the Belly Up, 4th and B, and the California just took a chance and went with what Tande-La , which translated means “Listen,” is a tour-de-force of full-bodied intent comes across in well-performed Center for the Arts has dwindled to a a cappella music, sometimes accompanied music. A love song, a lament, and a rally - trickle. by tasteful hand percussion. The style ing cry each carries its own emotional Only the long-running UCSD concert takes its cue from traditional African call- signature with or without the words. series – called ArtPower for the last five and-response, but seems to contain more According to the press materials I’ve years or so – has kept up a consistent layers; often there is a voice imitating a been sent, the Creole Choir of Cuba puts program of new buzz-worthy performers on quite a show. The singers have choreo - from the World Music scene. I can happi - ly reel off a list of great nights I’ve spent there in the last ten years, with acts like the Garifuna Women’s Collective, Tinariwen, Susana Baca, and, yes, the Buena Vista Social Club. Much of the credit for the quality of the continuing program must go to Martin Wollesen, its director since 2004, whose superbly com - ical inability to pronounce Spanish names correctly has never stopped him from introducing each show personally. Under Wollesen’s guidance, ArtPower, which also includes contemporary dance and chamber music, has grown interactive tentacles – stretching out into films, culi - nary events, master classes, smaller experimental performances, and new syn - ergistic compositions. Both the crowd and the price are still fairly hoity-toity, but ArtPower is more relevant than ever. I’ll be there again tonight, ready to clap along with the clave of the Creole Choir of Cuba. See the Creole Choir of Cuba Tuesday, November 1, at the Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD Campus, 8pm.

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Big Shot Reub Emmylou Wild Older Quimera Peter Case & the Reloaders Harris Women Music Wig! Hard Bargain Roundhouse Blues Unleashed More Than Human by Bart Mendoza Let’s cut to the chase. If you’re a Peter by Mark Pulliam by Mark Pulliam by Bart Mendoza (Remastered) Case fan you’re going to love this record. In a career that has spanned six The basics include the fact that there are Big Shot Reub and the Reloaders is a Anyone who has ever met “Sweet” decades (her first album, Gliding Bird , by Sandra Castillo 12 sparsely arranged, blues-inspired San Diego-based trio that plays tradition - Joyce Ann Martin or Annie Rettic knows was released in 1969), Emmylou Harris songs. Meanwhile Case handles six- and al blues and blues/rock, featuring front that rarely has a combo’s name been has produced an extensive, celebrated, ‘Twas the calm before the storm…as cav - 12-string guitars, bass, piano and har - man Reuben Vigil (lead guitar and more apt. Fearless performers on their and eclectic body of work. (Her 25 ernous shadows envelop the night, wind monica, with Ron Franklin on electric and vocals), Jodie Hill (bass), and Ric Lee own, with original music steeped in folk albums encompass the genres of blue - and rain rush along the cobblestone slide guitar and, crucially for this disc, (drums). Their newly released debut and Americana traditions, both have been grass, folk, country, gospel, and rock.) streets. Church bells toll in syncopation drummer D.J. Bonebrake holding down album, Roundhouse Blues , contains 10 beloved mainstays of the local music The 12-time Grammy winner, who was with a blackbird’s mournful call – what the beat. songs, all written and arranged by Vigil. community for over a decade. inducted into the Country Music Hall of lurks behind these dark corners ultimately Fans of Case’s solo acoustic folk/blues The album was recorded at Roundhouse Teaming up for their debut album Fame in 2008, has always been escapes the crypt at midnight. material are directed to a cover of a Recording Studios in North Hollywood together, Unleashed , Rettic provides viola renowned as a vocalist and duet partner, Leadbelly foot stomper “Thirty Days in (hence the title), produced by Glen and dulcimer with Martin playing guitar, Quimera Music’s latest masterpiece, who has sung harmony with Gram the Workhouse” and the closing “House Laughlin (The Dickies, Cherry and both contribute vocals and songwrit - More Than Human (Remastered) , trips the Parsons, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Guy Rent Party,” in which Case’s own recent Bluestorms) and mastered by Grammy- ing. The eight tracks are solely played by psyche-fantastic, providing a cinematic Clark, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Neil health problems and their aftermath are winner Charlie Watts (Fleetwood Rettic and Martin, although “End of the backdrop for an alternate universe Young, Roy Orbison, Gillian Welch, and the focus. While the subject matter may Mac/Rumours). It is an auspicious begin - Night” includes a bass cameo from Billy moored between Heaven’s twilight and many others. However, Harris has prima - not seem particularly melodic, this is one ning – the album was nominated for Fritz (Coyote Problem). Production is the Apocalypse. This opus dei roars in rily been known as a singer and inter - of his classic story songs; it takes you in SDMA Best Blues Album in 2011. mostly by Steve Langdon, with a pair of defiant contrast to the ethereal stirrings preter of other artists’ songs, rather than instantly, with a hook that’ll have you Vigil, who formerly backed local blues tunes helmed by Sven Erik Seaholm. It’s a of the artist’s 2009 debut, Love and as a song writer. Her latest recording, singing along by the end of the tune. artist Michele Lundeen, describes his crisp, clean sound, which brings out the Madness , which was reviewed in the Hard Bargain , aims to change that. There’s a great line about forming a new musical influences as B.B. King, Carlos best in both voices and instrumentation. Troubadour in June 2010. (A former San Hard Bargain , Harris’ third album on band that’ll make you smile. The album Santana, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. The sparse instrumentation does set Diegan, who once lived in Ocean Beach, the Nonesuch label, contains 11 original is worth the price of admission for this But despite his obvious virtuosity, Vigil is the duo apart from other locals plying the Quimera Music now makes her home in songs, three of which were co-written song alone. not a one-man show or grandstander. same terrain. This works fine with the Brooklyn, New York.) More Than Human ’s with Grammy- and Oscar-winning com - But that ending is just the beginning. The Reloaders have a cohesive sound, material on hand. Wild Older Women per - rich, sonic tapestries, replete with raging poser Will Jennings and two tracks As great as Case is in solo mode, with a and Vigil shares the spotlight with form stark, confessional music, starting guitars, massive percussions and vocals, penned by others. Unlike her previous band he’s explosive, and the other songs Berklee-trained Hill and Lee, who has out with the eponymous lead track, set out on a meteoric collision course album, All I Intended to Be (2008), which on this disc truly kick. Basically swampy, been playing professionally since the age which undelicately points out their mani - and nearly self-destructs on its journey to was recorded over a period of three bluesy rock, this is an album that’ll carry of 16 (with, among other groups, the festo (so to speak). Aging is something Orion. years and featured an all-star cast, Hard you through Friday and Saturday night. Bayou Brothers). that wasn’t considered much in the past From the spectral prelude of “Merula Bargain was laid down in just four weeks Play it loud and often. “So Much Inside Me,” “Big Shot in the world of music. Indeed, the mod - (Overture),” which slips into the mania - with only three performers: Harris; Jay If there’s a hit single here it’s “Ain’t Roll,” “I Don’t Drink,” and “Love Is a ern music scene (1955- ) has only just cal throes of “Angel Slayer,” the album Joyce (who also produced) on guitars Got No Dough,” a frenzied garage rocker Memory” (featuring some sweet slide about reached 60 years of age itself, so grabs its listeners by the throat and and keyboards; and Giles Reaves on with a killer harmonica break, a sweet guitar playing) are “traditional” blues it’s refreshing to hear the issue tackled adamantly refuses to surrender its hold. drums and keyboards. Harris overdubbed early Motown-type piano riff and a truly songs, rendered in the spirit of classic head on in song. Likewise, few could Quimera’s music, defined as symphonic all the harmonies, which are luminous. universal lyrical sentiment. The follow up artists such as Robert Johnson and T- write song about being independent rock, pays homage to the past masters of The resulting arrangements are surpris - would likely be “The Words In Red,” Bone Walker. “Love’s Come Knocking” enough to not need a man to fix a drain this mercurial genre, i.e., Moody Blues, ingly rich, but the most impressive complete with 12-string jangle and clas - turns up the tempo with some flashy gui - or a coffee table with such conviction. ELO, Tangerine Dream, Queensryche, by aspect of Hard Bargain is the introspec - sic Case melody shifts, but pretty much tar work reminiscent of Stevie Ray Meanwhile, they tackle being single and capturing the unbridled fury of classical tive and hauntingly poignant lyrics, espe - everything here is worth hearing. Vaughan. The gloves come off in older in “Don’t Need a Man,” a slice of and rock music, while redesigning it for cially the songs penned by Harris, many Production (by Case with assistance “Survive,” where Vigil channels Jimi life out of Martin’s diary explaining the twenty-first century. of which are drawn from her life. from Franklin) is sparse, just the instru - Hendrix, complete with reverb, wah parental advice on finding the love of In the indomitable “Immortal,” The opening track, “The Road,” is an ments, a voice, a smidge of distortion wah, and other electronic effects. one’s life, or at least a boyfriend. Quimera Music contemplates her own ethereal tribute to Harris’ former lover and a whole lot of reverb. In other “Celestial,” a moody – almost dream - Therein lies the albums main charm. earthly existence without end. She also and mentor Gram Parsons, who died of words, a perfect match for Case’s blues like – ballad, bridges the traditional and Even if you’ve never met the pair straddles that finite line between this an overdose in 1973. It is obvious that or rock tunes. modern, finishing with a ’70s-style psy - Unleashed is like having a musical discus - mortal coil and the hereafter in Harris’ heart still aches from the loss: “I Case’s work was first heard on a single chedelic guitar solo that recalls Robin sion with them. Though the tempos rarely “Shadows,” only to realize the grave dis - know I couldn’t save you/And no one in 1976. In a long and varied career, he’s Trower. kick up tempo, it’s passionate music with service she has extended to the one who was to blame/But the road we shared made a lot of albums in a lot of circum - The song mix is not straight blues. humor and lyrical depth. truly loves her. The title track, “More together once/Will never be the same.” stances, but this one will go down as one “Viva Bracero” brings a Latin-flavored As fun as the album is, it should be Than Human,” emerges from the thun - Another track, “Darlin’ Kate,” is a mov - of the best, with both an inspired collec - influence to a tribute to the unskilled noted that live is where the songs truly derdome to reaffirm the notion that “we ing elegy to Harris’ close friend and fre - tion of songs and a driven performance. workers who helped rebuild America stand out, with both Martin and Rettic’s are all part of the same source-one but quent collaborator, Kate McGarrigle, Bottom line, Wig! is a welcome addi - after the Great Depression. “C,” an charming stage presence and Martin’s separated by our own minds.” Among who died of cancer last year. Two songs, tion to Cases’s canon and proof positive instrumental inspired by Vigil’s mother, quick-wit banter among the reasons for the celestial choirs and herculean orches - “Nobody” and “Lonely Girl,” are about that his muse is just as strong as ever. Celia, is a beautiful guitar arrangement, their popularity on the local coffeehouse tration, which soars and builds upon loneliness, something the thrice-divorced played acoustically, which is almost clas - circuit. itself, layer by climactic layer, this ode to Harris has undoubtedly experienced from sical in its elegance and simplicity. “Time If you like your music slick and glossy, humanity serves as Quimera’s personal touring for much of the past 40 years. Was,” which has the least blues inspira - with heavy production, this album won’t proclamation to live and let live. “Goodnight Old World” is a bittersweet tion of the 10 songs on the album, also do much for you, but if your taste in One of the most poignant laments lullaby inspired by Harris’ newly arrived displays the least memorable guitar music takes in true folk traditions and ever to be recorded is the enigmatic grandchild. The whimsical “Big Black work, relying instead on Vigil’s vocals to recording stripped to their essence, then “Danse Macabre.” The song was created Dog” is about Harris’ adoption of a stray. carry the tune. this disc should be right up your alley. by Quimera and her composer, Patrick (Harris runs a dog rescue shelter in real Roundhouse Blues is a very impressive after the couple visited the beach areas life.) In “The Ship on His Arm,” suggest - debut from a very promising group. The of New York and viewed the horrific ed by the true-life story of her parents press release accompanying Roundhouse sight of tons of garbage left behind on (her dad, a Marine, was a POW in the ented song on the album. The title track, Blues boasts that “[t]here is a quality gui - the shores. This affecting prayer for glob - Korean War), Harris tells the romantic “Hard Bargain,” was written by Ron tar slinger on the Blues horizon, and you al redemption urges mankind to take a story of a couple separated by war. Sexsmith. The album closes with the only should know his name: Reuben Vigil.” very long and hard look at what is really The ballad “My Name is Emmett Till” other cover, the uplifting “Cross Blues fans should give this album a seri - happening to this beautiful planet of is based on the true story of a 14-year Yourself,” written by producer/guitarist ous listen. ours. old boy brutally murdered in Mississippi Joyce. What you destroy in 1955. Not all the songs are sad. “Six In Hard Bargain , Harris, now 64 years What you neglect White Cadillacs” has an upbeat rockabilly old, wistfully reflects on her life – and its What you devour tempo, even if the lyrics deal with the disappointments, regrets, and losses – in What you ignore weariness of life (“Hey hey hey carry me a way that is unstintingly honest, some - What you forget…will turn around and home.”). “New Orleans,” a nod to times melancholy, occasionally joyous, take you within Hurricane Katrina, is the most rock-ori - never maudlin, and always heartfelt and eloquent. With this album, the venerable Harris has proven that she is both a first- Please remember this. We have been continued, adjacent class singer and songwriter. warned. www.sandiegotroubadour.com 13 NOVEMBER 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ’round about

NOVEMBER CALENDAR WEEKLY

Tomcat Courtney , The Turquoise, 873 Turquoise St., 6pm. Sue Palmer & 4 Queens of Boogie Woogie , Lady Dottie & the Diamonds , Humphrey’s every sunday tuesday • 1 Saville Theatre, City College Campus, 14th & C Backstage Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., Joe Marillo , The Brickyard, 675 W. G St., Jerry Gontang , Desi & Friends, 2734 Lytton St., 8pm. 7pm. 9:30am. St., 7pm. San Diego Banjo Band , McDonald’s, 54th & El Scandinavian Dance Class , Folk Dance Center, Cajon Blv., 5:30pm. Dusty & the LoveNotes , House of Blues, 1055 Patrizio Buanne , Anthology, 1337 India St., Shawn Rohlf & Friends , Farmers Market, 5th Ave., 8pm. 7:30pm. DMV parking lot, Hillcrest, 10am. Dancing Unlimited, 4569 30th St., 7:30pm. Joe Marillo & Now Time , Turquoise Cafe, 873 Elliott Lawrence , Prado Restaurant, Balboa Turquoise St., 6:30pm. Hargo w/ Gayle Skidmore , Belly Up, 143 S. Marcia Forman Band , The Big Kitchen, 3003 Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Grape St., 10am. Park, 7:30pm. Jinx King , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 2241 Open Mic , The Reunion, 2205 Mendocino Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. wednesday • 16 Chris Clarke & Friends , Golden Hill Farmers Market, B St. between 27th & 28th St., 10am. Ave., 8pm. The Barr Brothers , Anthology, 1337 India St., wednesday • 9 Sketchy Black Dog , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Open Mic , Across the Street @ Mueller 7:30pm. Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7:30pm. Bluegrass Brunch , Urban Solace, 3823 30th St., 10:30am. College, 4605 Park Blvd., 8pm. Creole Choir of Cuba , Mandeville Auditorium, Coco & Lafe , Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Dr., Don Strandberg & John Dartnell , Lestat’s, 3343 Open Mic , Skybox Bar & Grill, 4809 UCSD Campus, La Jolla, 8pm. 6pm. Adams Ave., 9pm. Zzymzzy Quartet , OB People’s Food Co-op, 4765 Voltaire St., Ocean Beach, 11am. Clairemont Dr., 8:30pm. Zapf Dingbats , El Dorado, 1030 Broadway, Rachel Drexler w/ S.D.’s New Voices , Vision Daniel Jackson , Croce’s, 802 5th Ave., 11am. New Latin Jazz Quartet Jam Session w/ 8:30pm. Center, 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., 7pm. Gilbert Castellanos , El Camino, 2400 India St., Sue Palmer Quintet , Croce’s, 802 5th Ave., thursday • 17 International Ethnic Folk Dancing , Balboa 9pm. 7:30pm. Park Club Bldg., 12:30-4:30pm. Joe Rathburn & John Foltz , Vision Center, Firehouse Swing Dancing , Queen Bee’s Art wednesday • 2 Elliott Yamin , Anthology, 1337 India St., 7:30pm. Open Blues Jam w/ Chet & the Committee , & Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St., 9pm. 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., 7pm. Downtown Cafe, 182 E. Main St., El Cajon, Jesse Davis , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, The Dares/Whitton , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., Craig Ingraham Band , Rebecca’s, 3015 Juniper 2:30pm. 9pm. 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. St., 7pm. Celtic Ensemble , Twiggs, 4590 Park Blvd., 4pm. every thursday Robin Henkel & Billy Watson , The Calypso, 576 Kelsea Little , Tin Can Ale House, 1863 5th Ave., N. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, 7:30pm. Elliott Lawrence , Avenue 5 Restaurant, 2760 Baba’s Jam Night , The Lodge, 444 Country thursday • 10 8pm. 5th Ave., 5:30pm. Club Lane, Oceanside, 5pm. Monette Marino-Keita & Steph Johnson , They Might Be Giants w/ Jonathan Coulton , Anthology, 1337 India St., 7:30pm. Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Jazz88 Sunday Night Jam , Spaghetteria, 1953 Happy Hour Jam , Winston’s, 1921 Bacon St., Hello Trouble CD Release , Coyote Bar & Grill, India St., 6pm. 5:30pm. Laura Roppe w/ Pebaluna , Belly Up, 143 S. 300 Carlsbad Village Dr., 6pm. Miguel Zenon , The Loft, Price Center, UCSD Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Campus, 8pm. Traditional Irish Session , The Field, 544 5th Open Mic, Downtown Cafe, 182 E. Main St., El Cowboy Jack , John’s Neighborhood Bar & Ave., 7pm. Cajon, 6pm. Grill, 1280 E. Vista Way, Vista, 6:30pm. Sue Palmer & Candye Kane , The Calypso, 576 Highway 101, Encinitas, 8pm. Open Mic , Cafe Libertalia, 3834 5th Ave., Chet & the Committee Open Blues Jam , Chris Bell , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 8:15pm. Downtown Cafe, 182 E. Main, El Cajon, 6pm. thursday • 3 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. John Lee Hooker Jr. , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 9pm. Jazz Roots w/ Lou Curtiss , 8-10pm, KSDS Esencia Latin Jazz Quartet, The Turquoise, Jake’s Mountain , Wynola Pizza Express, 4355 Peter Sprague , Roxy Restaurant, 517 S. Coast (88.3 FM). 873 Turquoise St., 6:30pm Hwy 78, Julian, 6pm. Hwy. 101, 7pm. Pussytrot the Cat , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. José Sinatra’s OB-oke , Winston’s, 1921 Wood ‘n’ Lips Open Mic , Friendly Grounds, Peter Sprague , Roxy Restaurant, 517 S. Coast Generation Jazz , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Bacon St., 9:30pm. 9225 Carlton Hills Blvd., Santee, 6:30pm. Hwy. 101, 7pm. Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7:30pm. The Bluegrass Special w/ Wayne Rice , Jack Butler Acoustic Duo , Dick’s Last Resort, Joe Rathburn w/ Gregory Page & Jeffrey Joe Marc Cohn , Anthology, 1337 India St., friday • 18 10pm-midnight, KSON (97.3 FM). 345 4th Ave., 7pm. Morin , Vision Center, 11260 Clairemont Mesa 7:30&9:30pm. Elliott Lawrence , Avenue 5 Restaurant, 2760 Blvd., 7pm. Chad Farran/Natasha Kozally/Dusty Brough , Rio Peligroso , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 5th Ave., 7pm. Ruby & the Red Hots , Humphrey’s Backstage Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 5pm. every monday Old Tyme Fiddlers Jam (1st & 3rd Thursday), Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. Lone Mountain Blues , Wynola Pizza Express, Open Mic , Gio’s, 8384 La Mesa Blvd., 5:30pm. New Expression Music, 4434 30th St., 7pm. Willy Porter , AMSD Concerts, 4650 Mansfield friday • 11 4355 Hwy 78, Julian, 6pm. Ukulele Jam , New Expression Music, 4434 Moonlight Serenade Orchestra , Lucky Star St., Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Oleta Adams , Anthology, 1337 India St., 30th St., 2852 University Ave., 6:30pm. Restaurant, 3893 54th St., 7pm. Kenny Neal , Anthology, 1337 India St., 7:30pm. Alan James , Wynola Pizza Express, 4355 Hwy 7:30&9:30pm. Open Mic , Tango Del Rey, 3567 Del Rey St., Jazz Jam w/ Joe Angelastro , E St. Cafe, 128 Stoney B Blues Band , Patrick’s II, 428 F St., 78, Julian, 6pm. Veronica May & Lindsay White , Oasis House 7pm. W. E St., Encinitas, 7pm. 9pm. Walter Cabal , Cafe Libertalia, 3834 5th Ave., Concerts, Sorrento Valley, 8pm. El Cajon Music Masters , Central Open Mic/Family Jam , Rebecca’s, 3015 7pm. www.oasishouseconcerts.com Congregational Church, 8360 Lemon Ave., La Juniper St., 7pm. Average White Band , Anthology, 1337 India St., Owen Stone , Across the Street at Mueller Mesa, 7pm. friday • 4 College, 4603 Park Blvd., 8pm. 7:30&9:30pm. Open Mic , Wine Steals, 1243 University Ave., every friday Trails & Rails , Wynola Pizza Express, 4355 Hwy The Steely Damned , Humphrey’s Backstage Gerry O’Beirne , Frogstop House Concert, San 7pm. 78, Julian, 6pm. Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7:30&9:45pm. Marcos, 8pm. 760/295-0222 or Open Mic , Turquoise Cafe Bar Europa, 873 Open Mic , Cafe Lily, 14045 Midland Rd., [email protected] Poway, 5pm. KEV & Scot Ryder , Escondido Joe’s Coffee, 119 Eve Selis CD Release , Sherwood Auditorium, Turquoise St., PB, 7pm. E. Grand Ave., 7pm. Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect St., Open Mic w/ Bill Everett , Bailey’s BBQ & Bill Shreeve Quartet , Croce’s, 802 5th Ave., Open Mic , Lion Coffee, 101 Market St., 6pm. Saloon, 2307 Main St., Julian, 8pm. Stoney B Blues Band , Encinitas Elks Lodge, La Jolla, 8pm. 7:30pm. Joe Mendoza , Uncle Duke’s Beach Cafe, 107 1393 Windsor Rd., Cardiff, 7pm. Chad Taggart/Diana Keller , Across the Street Fred, Regina & Julia Benedetti , Ki’s International Ethnic Folk Dancing (interme - Diana St., Leucadia, 6pm. at Mueller College, 4603 Park Blvd., 8pm. Restaurant, 2591 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, diate & advanced) , Balboa Park Club & War Joe Marillo Trio , Rebecca’s, 3015 Juniper St., Graham Parker , AMSD Concerts, 4650 8:30pm. Mansfield St., Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Jefferson Jay CD Release w/ Charbra & For Memorial Bldg., 7:30pm. 7pm. (1st three Fridays of the month) Aaron Bowen , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. Euge Groove , Anthology, 1337 India St., the Faint , The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd., 8pm. Open Mic , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 7:30pm. Elliott Lawrence , Shooters, Sheraton Hotel 7:30&9:30pm. Peter Pupping Trio , Ki’s Restaurant, 2591 S. Stoney B’s Old School Blues Jam , Gaslamp La Jolla, Holiday Court Dr., 7pm. Peter Sprague & Blurring the Edges w/ Fred Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, 8:30pm. saturday • 19 Speakeasy, 710 4th Ave., 9pm. Open Mic , Bella Roma Restaurant, 6830 La Benedetti , Fine Arts Hall, Rm. 220, Grossmont Stoney B Blues Band , Gallagher’s Irish Pub, Jolla Blvd. #103, 8pm. College, 8pm. 5046 Newport Ave., 9pm. Coco & Lafe , Poway Library, 13137 Poway Rd., every tuesday Open Mic , L’Amour de Yogurt, 9975 Carmel Cash’d Out , Cheers, 2475 Main St., Ramona, 2pm. Mountain Rd., 8pm. 8pm. Volcan Mountain Boyz , Wynola Pizza Express, Lou Fanucchi , Paesano, 3647 30th St., 5:30pm. Bill Shreeve Quartet , Croce’s, 802 5th Ave., Joe Bagg/Brian Levy/Kevin Kanner , Dizzy’s @ saturday • 12 4355 Hwy 78, Julian, 6pm. Open Mic , Joey’s Smokin’ BBQ & Doc’s 8:30pm. Saloon, 6955 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, 7pm. Open Mic , Egyptian Tea Room & Smoking S.D. Wine & Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 8pm. Robin Henkel , Birdrock Coffee Roasters, 5627 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir , St. Nathan James Trio , Ki’s Restaurant, 2591 S. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 3725 30th St., 6pm. Traditional Irish Session , The Ould Sod, 3373 Parlour, 4644 College Ave., 9pm. La Jolla Blvd., 10am. Adams Ave., 7pm. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, 8:30pm. Mission Hills Artists Folk Music at Holiday KEV , Kensington Cafe, 4141 Adams Av., 7pm. Gregory Page , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. Sale , United Church of Christ, 4070 Jackdaw On Ensemble , Dove Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Open Mic , Beach Club Grille, 710 Seacoast every saturday St., 11am-4pm. Carlsbad, 7pm. Dr., Imperial Beach, 7pm. Chet & the Committee All Pro Blues Jam , Joe Marillo , The Brickyard, 675 W. G St., KEV w/ Scot Ryder/Sarah Maisel/Tom Baird & Tom Baird & David Silva w/ Jeffrey Joe Morin , 9:30am. saturday • 5 David Silva , Free Scone Tasting Party, Rebecca’s, 3015 Juniper St., 7:30pm. The Harp, 4935 Newport Ave., 7:30pm. Rebecca’s, 3015 Juniper St., 7pm. Open Mic , Second Wind, 8515 Navajo Rd., Chris Clarke & Friends , Golden Hill Farmers Dust Bowl John Slaughter & the Okie Dokies , Jake Shimabukuro , Anthology, 1337 India St., 8pm. Market, B St. between 27th & 28th, 10am. Casa de Oro Library, 9805 Campo Rd., Spring Stoney B & Papa Bob , Tasting Room, Lorimar 7:30&9:30pm. Winery, 42031 Main St., Temecula, 6:30pm. Open Mic , The Royal Dive, 2949 San Luis Rey Elliott Lawrence , Croce’s, 802 5th Ave., Valley, 2pm. Don Strandberg & John Dartnell/Sterling Witt , Rd., Oceanside, 8pm. 11:30am. Patti Zlakett , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, New Expression Mandolin Orchestra Debut Across the Street at Mueller College, 4603 Park Concert , New Expression Music, 4434 30th St., Blvd., 8pm. Patrick Berrogain’s Hot Club Combo , Prado Adrienne Nims & Spirit Wind , Rhythm City 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 5pm. Grill, 1020 San Marcos Blvd., 6pm. 7pm. Herbie Hancock Tribute w/ Gilbert Restaurant, Balboa Park, 8pm. Beth Ross-Buckley Group w/ Peter Sprague , Open Mic , Valley Music, 1611 N. Magnolia Meyer Fine Art, 2400 Kettner Blvd., 6:30pm. Nick Tocco/Doug Walker Jazz Duo , Kensington Castellanos/Joshua White/Kevin Kanner/David Cafe, 4141 Adams Ave., 7pm. Robaire , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Culinary Ctr., Ave., El Cajon, 6pm. Virtual Strangers , Templar’s Hall, Old Poway 200 Harbor Dr., 8pm. every wednesday BViolin & the Gypsy Knights , Valencia Hotel, Park, 14134 Midland Rd., 7pm. Josh White Jr., San Dieguito United Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdalena, Encinitas, Fred, Regina & Julia Benedetti , Ki’s Mike Head & Friends, Farmers Market, 1132 Prospect Ave., La Jolla, 7pm. Battlefield Band , AMSD Concerts, 4650 7:30pm. Restaurant, 2591 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, Newport Ave., Ocean Beach, 4-7pm. Mansfield St., Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Don Strandberg & John Dartnell w/ Old Man 8:30pm. Lou Fanucchi , Romesco Restaurant, 4346 Bruce Cameron & Full House , Hoffer’s Cigar Fred , Across the Street at Mueller College, Lindi Ortega/Tony Lucca/Sam Grow , Lestat’s, Bonita Rd., 6pm. Bar, 8282 La Mesa Blvd., 7:30pm. 4603 Park Blvd., 7:30pm. 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. Angela Bofill Experience , Anthology, 1337 Incendio , AMSD Concerts, 4650 Mansfield St., India St., 7:30&9:30pm. Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Abbey Road Beatles Tribute , Anthology, 1337 Mark Jackson Band , Rock Valley House Robin Henkel , Zel’s, 1247 Camino Del Mar, 8pm. sunday • 20 Concerts, University City, 8pm. 858/452-1539 India St., 7:30pm. sunday • 27 Bodie Mountain Express , Ki’s Restaurant, 2591 Peter Sprague Trio , Encinitas Street Fair, Mikan Zlatkovich/Gilbert Castellanos/Brian S. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, 8:30pm. Levy , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Culinary Ctr., 200 Courtyard Stage @ Lumberyard, 11am. Dixieland Jazz Festival , Town & Country Hotel, Harbor Dr., 8pm. Josh Damigo/John Meeks/Joanie Mendenhall , Adrienne Nims & Spirit Wind , Encinitas Fall thursday • 24 500 Hotel Circle North, 8am. Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. Festival, Center Court, The Lumberyard, 1:30pm. John Foltz & Joe Rathburn , Ki’s Restaurant, Dixieland Jazz Festival , Town & Country Hotel, Suzanne Shea , San Diego Desserts & Bistro, 2591 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, 8:30pm. Suzanne Shea w/ Sara Petite , San Diego 500 Hotel Circle North, 7pm. 5987 El Cajon Blvd., 6pm. Stoney B Blues Band , The Kraken, 2531 S. sunday • 13 Desserts & Bistro, 5987 El Cajon Blvd., 6pm. Tribute to Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio Coast Highway 101, Cardiff, 9pm. Kate MacLeod w/ Kate Eggleston , New w/ Joey Harris/the Reynolds Family Singers/ San Diego Folk Song Society , New Expression Expression Music, 4434 30th St., 7pm/Fiddle friday • 25 Dave Batti/James Lee Stanley , Dark Thirty Music, 4434 30th St., 2pm. Workshop, 2pm. House Concerts, Lakeside, 7:30pm. www.dark - thirty.com or 619/443-9622 sunday • 6 Coco & Lafe , El Cajon Library, 201 E. Douglas Don Strandberg & John Dartnell , Claire de Dixieland Jazz Festival , Town & Country Hotel, Ave., 2pm. Lune, 2906 University Ave., 7pm. 500 Hotel Circle North, 10am. Stoney B Blues Band , Santa Ysabel Casino, Larry Robinson , Fallbrook Library, 124 S. Joshua White Quartet , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Euphoria Brass Band , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & 25575 Hwy. 79, Santa Ysabel, 8pm. Mission Rd., 2pm. Bill Monroe Tribute Concert , St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 3502 Clairemont Dr., 4:30pm. Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7pm. Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7:30pm. Nathan Welden , San Diego Desserts & Bistro, Robin Henkel/Gregory Page/Sven-Erik Barbara Nesbitt , Wynola Pizza Express, 4355 5987 El Cajon Blvd., 6pm. Suzanne Shea , San Diego Desserts & Bistro, monday • 28 5987 El Cajon Blvd., 6pm. Seaholm/Brad Carter , Swedenborg Hall, 1531 Hwy 78, Julian, 6pm. Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet , Dizzy’s @ Tyler Ave., 7:30pm. Irish Christmas in America , AMSD Concerts, S.D. Wine & Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7pm. Sue Palmer Quintet w/ Steve Wilcox , Lacy J’s Finding the Constant , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Roadhouse Saloon & Grille, 8861 N. Magnolia, The Roland White Band , AMSD Concerts, 4650 4650 Mansfield St., Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7pm. Sunday Evening Cabaret , Anthology, 1337 India Santee, 6:30pm. Mansfield St., Normal Heights, 7:30pm. Sinatra Tribute w/ Dave Stanger , Anthology, St., 7pm. Whitney Shay & the Shakedowns , Humphrey’s Don Strandberg & John Dartnell , Claire de 1337 India St., 7:30pm. Backstage Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., Robin Henkel Band w/ Horns! , Lestat’s, 3343 Lune, 2906 University Ave., 7pm. Peter Sprague & Nina Francis , Ki’s Restaurant, 7pm. Adams Ave., 8pm. monday • 21 Kyler England & Erick Macek , Anthology, 1337 2591 S. Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff, 8:30pm. Timothy B. Schmit , Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros, Judy Collins/Walter Parks , Belly Up, 143 S. India St., 7pm. Stoney B Blues Band , Pal Joey’s, 5741 Waring Solana Beach, 8pm. Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Rhythm Jacks , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, Jay Farrar w/ Bobby Bare Jr. , Belly Up, 143 S. 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. R., 9pm. BraydleZ/Na$ty Boy Mackin/P. Mayor & DK/ Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Dre Stone/Upper County Royalty , Across the Stephen Stills w/ Pegi Young & the Survivors , wednesday • 30 Street at Mueller College, 4603 Park Blvd., 8pm. Karmina/Trent Hancock , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros, Solana Beach, 8pm. Ave., 9pm. saturday • 26 Rhythm Jacks , Patrick’s II, 428 F St., 9pm. Shelle Blue , Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, Stoney B Blues Band , Patrick’s II, 428 F St., Dixieland Jazz Festival , Town & Country Hotel, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. 9pm. tuesday • 22 500 Hotel Circle North, 9am. Boney James , Anthology, 1337 India St., monday • 7 Lou & Virginia Curtiss Song Circle , 1725 The Taildraggers , Wynola Pizza Express, 4355 7:30&9:30pm. monday • 14 Granite Hills Dr., El Cajon, 6pm. Hwy 78, Julian, 6pm. Lila Nelson , Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., 9pm. Peter Sprague & Kevyn Lettau , Cal State Stoney B Blues Band CD Release , Humphrey’s Robin Henkel , Zel’s, 1247 Camino Del Mar, University, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd., San 8pm. Marcos, noon. Poway Folk Circle Bluegrass Jam , Templar’s Backstage Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., Hall, Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Rd., 7pm. Mike Wofford/Holly Hofmann Quintet , Chet Cannon’s Blue Monday Pro Jam , 6:30pm. California Consort , Dizzy’s @ S.D. Wine & Neurosciences Institute, 10640 Hopkins Dr., La Humphrey’s Backstage Loune, 2241 Shelter Jolla, 8pm. Island Dr., 7pm. Nathan James Trio , Humphrey’s Backstage Culinary Ctr., 200 Harbor Dr., 7:30pm. Lounge, 2241 Shelter Island Dr., 7pm. 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