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FREE SAN DIEGO ROUBADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news February 2006 www.sandiegotroubadour.com Vol. 5, No. 5 what’s inside Welcome Mat ………3 Mission Statement Contributors E St. Cafe Full Circle.. …………4 Lily May Ledford Recordially, Lou Curtiss Front Porch... ………6 Guitar Teachers Doug Pettibone Paige Aufhammer Parlor Showcase …8 The Grams Ramblin’... …………10 Bluegrass Corner Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Highway’s Song. …12 Dougie MacLean Of Note. ……………13 The Grams The Wild Truth Sligo Rags The Wigbillies Gully ‘Round About ....... …14 February Music Calendar The Local Seen ……15 Photo Page FEBRUARY 2006 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR welcome mat Where to Go to Hear Acoustic Music in San Diego RSAN ODUIEGBO ADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news The E Street Café A Cozy Place to Hang Out in Coastal North County MISSION CONTRIBUTORS To promote, encourage, and provide an alternative voice for the great local FOUNDERS by Dwight Worden music that is generally overlooked by Ellen and Lyle Duplessie Liz Abbott the mass media; namely the genres of ocated at 130 West E Street about a Kent Johnson alternative country, Americana, roots, block from the Coast Highway in folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass. PUBLISHERS downtown old Encinitas, the E Street To entertain, educate, and bring togeth - Liz Abbott L Café is a great little place to hang out, er players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson forms; to explore their foundations; and drink coffee, eat yummy snacks, chat to expand the audience for these types EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS with friends, go on line at computer work of music. Liz Abbott stations, or, in the evenings, enjoy listen - Chuck Schiele ing to live music. The Café bills itself as a SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local ADVERTISING “full service cyber café,” featuring Dell source for alternative country, Liz Abbott work stations connected to the Internet Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, Joanna Schiele via high speed fiber optics. If you prefer, jazz, and bluegrass music news, is pub - you can bring your own wireless comput - lished monthly and is free of charge. DISTRIBUTION er and connect to the Internet that way, Lois Bach Letters to the editor must be signed and free with a purchase. The Café offers a Peter Bolland may be edited for content. It is not, wide selection of beverages, featuring however, guaranteed that they will Greg Gohde organic fair trade coffees and a broad appear. Kevin Irvin Mark Jackson selection of loose leaf teas. Both vegan All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO Jenna Duplessie Pabalate alternatives and the standard café fare are E Street Cafe interior TROUBADOUR, unless otherwise stat - Bill Richardson here to tempt you. The Café is open from ed, are solely the opinion of the writer Dave Sawyer 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through City which, once obtained, and do not represent the opinions of the Chuck Schiele Wednesday and from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. will allow them to install a staff or management. All rights Indian Joe Stewart reserved. Thursday through Saturday. permanent sound system and PHOTOGRAPHY The Café has a nice, clean and bright to otherwise notch up the atmosphere, with an interesting “parlor” program. At the moment ADVERTISING INFORMATION Steve Covault For advertising rates, call 619/298-8488 Lois Bach in the corner, decorated in turn of the temporary sound is set up by FACTS AND FIGURES or e-mail [email protected]. Tim Woods century style. Local owners Bob Naninga musicians on an “as needed” and Keith Shillington first opened the E basis. SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for WEB MASTER Street Café in September of 2004 with an WHERE : 130 E Street in old downtown Performing musicians who $30/yr. Send check payable to San Will Edwards Encinitas, one block west of N. Coast Diego Troubadour to: arts theme as a place for locals to hang want to play at the Café need WRITERS and enjoy music, poetry, and art. Highway 101 to send an email to: San Diego Troubadour Jeremy Browne Attractive paintings by local artists adorn HOURS : Sunday through Wednesday, 7 a.m.- [email protected]. They P.O. Box 164 Lou Curtiss La Jolla, CA 92038 the walls and are for sale. The art is rotat - 10 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday, will contact you about an Will Edwards 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Music most evenings. E-mail: [email protected]. Simeon Flick ed about every four months. audition, which is usually an Music has been part of the Cafe’s Check their on line calendar for unamplified appearance dur - WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy Kate Kowsh details: www.estreetcafe.com of the San Diego Troubadour? Go to Jim McInnes agenda since its founding. There is an ing the week at a Tuesday www.sandiegotroubadour.com and Tom Paine attractive, if small, stage in the corner MUSIC : All types of acoustic music; some open mic to be “checked slick on FIND AN ISSUE for a complete Raul Sandelin with good access to the room. On this electric; jazz, blues, pop, folk, out.” Musicians can also send bluegrass, Celtic, poetry, and other. list of locations we deliver to. Sven-Erik Seaholm stage the Café presents music, poetry, in a demo CD or other No rock or heavy metal. Open Mic José Sinatra and other live events. Their calendar of recording they can provide. ©2006 San Diego Troubadour. Nights on Tuesdays. Bluegrass Tina Stone events can be accessed on their website: The owners promise that they D. Dwight Worden Evening Socials beginning Sunday, http://www.estreetcafe.com/. By way of respond to every inquiry. The San Diego Troubadour is John Philip Wyllie February 5. example, January’s calendar included Those accepted are then dedicated to the memory of Ellen and LEVEL : Varies — mostly mid-level local Anna Troy, Michael Tiernan and friends, given weekend slots to per - Lyle Duplessie , whose vision inspired musicians; occasional touring the creation of this newspaper. Melissa Page, and others, along with an musicians form with amplification if Open Mic Night on Tuesdays and a soon needed. Although the E Street PRICE : Admission is free; tips for to come Bluegrass Social on Sunday Café doesn’t pay its musi - musicians evenings, starting this month. Most live cians, tips are collected in a performances begin at 7 p.m., but some INFO : www.estreetcafe.com. 760 230 2038 large, conspicuously labeled take place during the day, running RATING : Great place to hang, good listening, tip jar for that purpose. This through the noon hour, so make sure and fun to play. Not the “big time” for may change once the Café check the calendar. music, but overall a great little place. obtains its entertainment The food and beverages are delicious permit. and affordable. The menu includes all The Café hosts an open since it serves a variety of users — not kinds of coffees and teas (eat your heart mic on Tuesday nights from 7-9:30 p.m. everyone is there for the music, with out, Starbucks!), muffins, scones, pastries, or so. Solos, duets, and ensembles are attendant background noise a factor, but panini sandwiches, salads, and a broad welcome as are all kinds of music with not a large one. Admission is free, range of desserts, all nicely prepared. the exception of hard rock, heavy metal, although tips for musicians are encour - For the listener, this is a friendly and and other music that is heavy on the aged. The Café is in the process of seek - intimate place to hear music, although — electrics. Open mic musicians are typical - ing an entertainment permit from the ly allowed 15 minutes to perform two or three songs. Parking is available on the street and it is usually not hard to find a spot with - in a block or so in the evening. Overall, this a great little place that offers ambiance, computer access, good chow and drinks, and a nice variety of music for listeners. North County has needed a great place to hang out and build com - munity through art, music, and poetry. This may just be the spot. Next time you are in Encinitas, stop by the E Street Café. You won’t regret it. E Street Cafe owners and management: (l. to r.) Bob, Nancy, Keith, Barbara www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 FEBRUARY 2006 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle Lily May Ledford: The Banjo Pickin’ Girl in a mountain cabin. She talked about men wanted to sign her on as a water boy Girls were formed. Comprised of Lily swapping for that fiddle, remembering but digging ditches paid more. It’s a May, her sister Rosie, Evelyn “Daisy” that it looked like some “live thing” to shame she didn’t have the same kind of Lange, and Ester “Violet” Koehler, the her when she saw that little boy swinging business sense when it came to her Coon Creek Girls began singing on the it and batting weeds with it. She traded music. radio show where they’d stay for the next her treasured crayons for the fiddle, but Before leaving and in need of strings 15 years. she was still sure she got the best of the for her banjo, she walked from sunup to When the Coon Creek Girls were bargain. The fiddle was nothing but a sunset to the Pine Ridge General Store invited to play at the White House for shell, so she had to carve the pegs and because she was afraid she wouldn’t be King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the saddle and even had to steal some able to buy strings in Chicago.
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