FREE SAN DIEGO 10 YEARS ROUBADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news April 2011 www.sandiegotroubadour.com Vol. 10, No. 7 what’s inside Welcome Mat ………3 Mission Contributors Humphries at Humphrey’s Benefit Concert Passings Full Circle.. …………4 Roger McGuinn Recordially, Lou Curtiss Front Porch... ………6 Laura Roppé The Music Network Panache Orchestra Parlor Showcase …10 Josh Damigo Ramblin’... …………12 Bluegrass Corner The Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Stages Highway’s Song. …14 Gregory Page Is Huge in Holland David Wilcox Of Note. ……………17 Tango Nuevo GeoffreyKeezer/Peter Sprague Tom Juravich Steve Krause James Lee Stanley ‘Round About ....... …18 April Music Calendar The Local Seen ……19 Photo Page APRIL 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR welcome mat A “Fab” Way to Help Critters passings JOHNNY WALKER , 1921-2011 SAN DIEGO Johnny was a ROUBADOUR singer and teacher Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, of songs and Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news leader in commu - nity singing, who also helped estab - lish the San Diego Folk Song Society MISSION CONTRIBUTORS in the 1950s. For To promote, encourage, and provide an FOUNDERS most of its years alternative voice for the great local music that Ellen and Lyle Duplessie he was the unoffi - is generally overlooked by the mass media; Liz Abbott cial leader of the Folksong Society (no mat - namely the genres of alternative country, Kent Johnson Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and ter who the officers were) and only in the bluegrass. To entertain, educate, and bring PUBLISHERS mid- to late sixties did he become more of together players, writers, and lovers of these Liz Abbott an entertainer in folk clubs. When the San forms; to explore their foundations; and to Kent Johnson Diego Folk Festivals started, Johnny found expand the audience for these types of music. EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS his niche and was a part of most of them, Liz Abbott from the very first as a leader of workshops, SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local source for Chuck Schiele emcee, and behind-the-scenes advisor on a alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, ADVERTISING wide variety of music (mostly that of the blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news, Kent Johnson British Isles). Johnny came from Hull, in is published monthly and is free of charge. Letters to the editor must be signed and may be DISTRIBUTION Yorkshire, in the North of England, and edited for content. It is not, however, guaranteed Kent Johnson by Steve Thorn Harris. The nephew of the late Kingston much of his music reflected that North that they will appear. Dave Sawyer Trio founding member Nick Reynolds, Country tradition, although his library of Indian Joe Stewart Harris has been enjoying a busy per - songs was pretty extensive. From old bal - All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO Dan Long group of first-team Southern TROUBADOUR are solely the opinion of the Paul Cruz formance schedule with his current lads and sea chanties to British music hall writer and do not represent the opinions of the California musicians will be lend - recitations and comic songs, Johnny was a STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER band, Joey Harris and the Mentals. staff or management. All rights reserved. ing their voices to aid San Diego favorite here for many, many years. He Steve Covault A Shining a positive light on the current County animals. The third annual ADVERTISING INFORMATION state of the San Diego music scene will passed away March 17. San Diego and all WEB MASTER “Humphries at Humphreys” will be a For advertising rates, call 619/298-8488 be Wendy Bailey and True Stories, on those in the folk music world who came to or e-mail [email protected]. You can also find Will Edwards showcase headlined by Englishman docket to play a set at the fundraiser. know him will find his spot very hard to information on our website: WRITERS (now San Diegan) Dave Humphries and “Breakfast with the Beatles” (heard fill. – Lou Curtiss www.sandiegotroubadour.com Mike Alvarez his musical friends. A serene setting of Sunday mornings on The Walrus 105.7 SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for $30/yr. Peter Bolland docked sailboats will provide a nice Send check payable to S.D. Troubadour to: FM) host Dave Mason will serve as MC PINETOP PERKINS , 1913-2011 Lou Curtiss backdrop to an afternoon of music on t Frank Kocher and there will be prize give-aways and l Pinetop Perkins, San Diego Troubadour Sunday, April 17, from 3 to 7 p.m. at u a P.O. Box 164 Jim McInnes auctions all afternoon. All proceeds will v one of the last old Humphreys Backstage Lounge on Shelter o C La Jolla, CA 92038 Tim Mudd go toward the San Diego Humane school bluesmen e E-mail: [email protected]. Island. v Terry Roland e who played with Society and the Second Chance Rescue t S Humphries will be playing tracks WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy of the Sven-Erik Seaholm : Muddy Waters for Dogs. Tickets will be on sale at the o t San Diego Troubadour? Go to José Sinatra from his current Blindspot Records o and became the door for $5 and the show is for audi - h www.sandiegotroubadour.com and click Steve Thorn release, Hocus Pocus on Joker Lane , and P ences 21 and over. Visit oldest Grammy on FIND AN ISSUE for a complete list of Scott Wilson his critically acclaimed 2008 CD, ...And locations we deliver to. www.facebook.com/davehumphriesmu - award-winner D. Dwight Worden So It Goes . Two Beatles tribute bands, ever, died March SUBMITTING YOUR CD FOR REVIEW sic for more information. 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Not a playing with Sonny Boy Williamson on the The San Diego Troubadour is dedicated to and time to [email protected] by original “King Biscuit Time” on KFFA in W. the memory of Ellen and Lyle Duplessie , Beatles tribute band per se, the Bugs the 22rd of the month prior to publication. whose vision inspired the creation of this recreate the spirit of the Beatles’ Helena Arkansas during the 1940s and went ©2011 San Diego Troubadour. newspaper. Hamburg, Germany years with a reper - on to tour with Ike Turner and the Kings of toire which features as many American Rhythm in the 1950s. He joined Muddy rhythm and Blues numbers as Lennon- Waters’ band in 1969. Still touring up until McCartney compositions. a short time ago, Pinetop had made his Recently added to the roster of acts on home in Austin, Texas since 2004. –Lou the bill is former Beat Farmer Joey Curtiss www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 APRIL 2011 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle er now. What I use now is a MacBook Pro [15-inch] and I have a ProTools digital roger Mcguinn: design .002 interface. It has eight or 12 inputs – I could record a set of drums if I wanted to. It’s enough – and it records up to 48 kilohertz, 24-bit. It’s really high quality, a equal Parts Folkie high quality digital recording. The CD that’s out there is quite instructional. It gives you the basic principles of tracking on a com - puter and how to mix it and burn a CD at and Techie the end of the session. Then you send the CD up to a place like Oasis CD Duplication. Then you got a product you can sell. by Steve Thorn from a business perspective. SDT: Any sage advice to budding young San Diego Troubadour: Roger, what was the troubadours starting out? I think one of the The price you paid for your riches and fame, decision behind going independent? advantages you had starting out was the Was it all a strange game? Roger McGuinn: It really started when we same opportunity Jackie Gleason had –a You’re a little insane. comedian who was also a great actor. He had The money, the fame, and the public acclaim, were doing a George Harrison CD for a label that should go unnamed [laughs] vaudeville experience. You had the experi - Don’t forget who you are, ence of going out on the road with Bob You’re a rock and roll star. because they promised to pay us and refused to do it. They kept wanting the Gibson and playing at the Gate of Horn folk — “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll masters; they kept saying, “Send us the club in Chicago. Any advice for the current Star,” The Byrds masters and we’ll send you the check.” And generation? we said no. We said, ‘“Wire the money and RM: Sure! I’ll give you the advice that oger McGuinn knows first-hand the we’ll send you the master.” They wouldn’t Bobby Darin gave me. And Bobby Darin got cautionary tales of fame. His band, and it never happened. We recorded this on this probably from George Burns, who was a Rthe Byrds, and their East Coast our own dime and it was a $6,000 session vaudevillian before he was a movie star and counterpart, the Lovin’ Spoonful, were high - in Nashville.