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FREE SAN DIEGO 10 YEARS ROUBADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news November 2011 www.sandiegotroubadour.com Vol. 11, No. 2 what’s inside 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 RSAN ODUIEGBO ADOUR A Music Store Just for Drummers Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news by Mark Pulliam sponsoring monthly swap meets (offering used equipment and the like) in the spa - MISSION CONTRIBUTORS rums (and drummers) are often cious parking lot; “drum nights” each the Rodney Dangerfield of the Tuesday from 7-11 p.m. featuring product To promote, encourage, and provide an FOUNDERS music business – they tend to get specialists from leading suppliers demon - alternative voice for the great local music that Ellen and Lyle Duplessie D no respect. Rich dilettantes collect fancy strating new and existing products, as is generally overlooked by the mass media; Liz Abbott namely the genres of alternative country, Kent Johnson vintage guitars, not drums. Teenagers well as impromptu drummer jam ses - Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and PUBLISHERS usually want to learn to play the guitar, sions; and regular meet-ups/drum circles, bluegrass. To entertain, educate, and bring Liz Abbott not drums. Rock and roll and blues leg - organized in conjunction with the Socal together players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson ends are predominantly guitar players – Drum Society. Beginning in 2012, San forms; to explore their foundations; and to expand the audience for these types of music. EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS think Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Diego Drum Shop plans to become a Liz Abbott Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff provider of “Music Together,” which is an Chuck Schiele SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local source for Beck--rather than the rhythm section that internationally recognized early child - alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, ADVERTISING blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news, made their music possible. The reality is, hood music and movement program for Kent Johnson is published monthly and is free of charge. all musical groups, regardless of genre, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and Letters to the editor must be signed and may be DISTRIBUTION have a drummer (often overlooked). kindergartners (and their parents). edited for content. It is not, however, guaranteed Kent Johnson that they will appear. Dave Sawyer What would Rush be without Neal Peart? 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(including cowbells, shakers, tam - badour.com WEB That is the question that father-son bourines, jingle sticks, xylophones, bar SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for $30/yr. Chris Clarke team Paul and Chris Scott asked them - chimes, etc.), stick accessories and spe - Doug Walker Send check payable to S.D. Troubadour to: selves on a recent cross-country road trip, cialty sticks, and a complete line of drum San Diego Troubadour WRITERS visiting cities large and small with spe - accessories. San Diego Drum Shop sells P.O. Box 164 Beston Barnett La Jolla, CA 92038 Peter Bolland cialty drum stores. They returned to San equipment ranging in price from entry WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy of the Sandra Castillo Diego with a vision—to create a full-serv - level (complete kits for as little as $399) San Diego Troubadour? Go to Lou Curtiss ice retail outlet for musicians who play to the ultra-high end (handmade cymbals www.sandiegotroubadour.com and click Frank Kocher the drums (or beginners wishing to for $499). If it has anything to do with on FIND AN ISSUE for a complete list of Jim McInnes learn). The result, which opened on June drums, San Diego Drum Shop carries it, locations we deliver to. Bart Mendoza SUBMITTING YOUR CD FOR REVIEW Gregory Page 25 at 4580 Alvarado Canyon Road, Suite with knowledgeable sales personnel to If you have a CD you’d like to be considered for Mark Pulliam H, is in the heart of Mission Valley (in the help the customer in a friendly retail review, please send two copies to: San Diego Terry Roland industrial park behind Adventure 16, environment. Troubadour, P.O. Box 164, La Jolla, CA 92038. Chuck Schiele near the trolley station). Side by side, The adjacent Bluesky Studios offers SUBMITTING A CALENDAR LISTING Sven-Erik Seaholm with ample parking, are the San Diego instruction by well-known drummers Email your gig date, including location, address, José Sinatra Toby Ahrens, Ron Haslam, and Tom and time to [email protected] by Steve Thorn Drum Shop, selling new and used drums the 22rd of the month prior to publication. D. Dwight Worden and drum accessories; and Bluesky Donlinger. The rehearsal studios come in ©2011 San Diego Troubadour John Wyllie Studios, featuring rehearsal studios avail - various sizes, including one large enough Cover photo & design: Chuck Schiele able for hourly rental (with or without for a full group to practice or perform, amplifiers and equipment) and teaching complete with overhead spot lighting to The San Diego Troubadour is dedicated to the memory of Ellen and Lyle Duplessie , rooms with professional instructors. Both replicate the “stage” environment. For whose vision inspired the creation of this newspaper. experienced and aspiring drummers can further information, call Chris Scott or pound away day or night without having Jon Oren at 619-521-4860, or contact to worry about annoyed parents or noise them by e-mail at complaints from neighbors. [email protected], or visit In addition, San Diego Drum Shop the store at 4580 Alvarado Canyon Road, aims to become the gathering place for Suite H, San Diego, CA 92120. San Diego’s drum-playing community, 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.