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OFFICIAL PROGRAM Adams Avenue Roots Festival

Welcome Mat ………3 Mission Statement Contributors Message from AABA Full Circle.. …………4 Jack Guthrie Recordially, Lou Curtiss Adams Avenue Roots Festival ……………6 Performing Artists ……7 Schedule/Map ………10 Ramblin’... …………10 Bluegrass Corner Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Of Note. ……………16 Lee Tyler Post Cliff Carlisle The Freilachmachers Charlie Poole Bill Monroe Jenn Grinels Curtis Peoples Shadowdogs Cris Williamson Little Big Men ‘Round About ...... …18 April Music Calendar The Local Seen ……19 Photo Page

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FROM THE FESTIVAL COORDINATOR RSAN ODUIEGBO ADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news T to the 32nd annual Adams Avenue Roots Festival. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Adams elcome Avenue Business Association (AABA), I want to MISSION CONTRIBUTORS W thank you for coming to enjoy the music, food, beverages, and diverse vendors. We know you and yours will have an enjoyable experience! To promote, encourage, and provide an FOUNDERS alternative voice for the great local Ellen and Lyle Duplessie We expect that you’ll come back to our small historic business district to shop, dine, and music that is generally overlooked by Liz Abbott enjoy a cup of coffee with a rare book while you’re getting your auto patched up and your hair the mass media; namely the genres of Kent Johnson coiffed! Yes, it can all happen on Adams Avenue. alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass. PUBLISHERS The Adams Avenue Roots Festival gratefully acknowledges all the local, regional, and national To entertain, educate, and bring togeth - Liz Abbott artists who are participating in this year’s festival. We thank our music curator and festival er players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson godfather Lou Curtiss, professor Joel Henderson who helped arrange the booking of Odetta, and forms; to explore their foundations; and EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS AABA board member Phil Linssen who directed us to Henderson. to expand the audience for these types Liz Abbott We are very grateful to Liz Abbott who edits, lays out, and publishes the San Diego of music. Chuck Schiele Troubadour – which twice a year serves as our event program – a huge and much appreciated For advertising rates, call 619/298- undertaking. We thank Carey Driscoll, director of Acoustic Music San Diego which is co-promoting 8488 or e-mail [email protected]. ADVERTISING Brenda Villegas the festival along with his Friday night concert. (See the Roots Festival ad on the back cover.) San Diego Troubadour P.O. Box 164 DISTRIBUTION The AABA expresses its deep appreciation to our political representatives including Third La Jolla, CA 92038 Brenda Villegas District Councilmember Toni Atkins who has been tremendously supportive of the AABA and its E-mail: [email protected]. many activities. Ms. Atkins is responsible for funding the public improvements – including antique WEB MASTER SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local Will Edwards lights, shade trees, sidewalk repairs, and community entryway signs, which will vastly improve source for alternative country, Antique Row at the western end of our district. We also thank Third Supervisory District WRITERS Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, Supervisor Ron Roberts, a long time supporter of our festivals and the small business Lou Curtiss and bluegrass music news, is published Simeon Flick community, particularly through his leadership in the City County Reinvestment Task Force. monthly and is free of charge. Letters to Paul Hormick We’re also grateful to Annie Ross, the festival’s jaqueline of all trades, who performs the editor must be signed and may be Frederick Leonard edited for content. It is not, however, multiple tasks from booking artists to publicity to installing messages on the Discount Fabrics Jim McInnes guaranteed that they will appear. marquee – most of which are done as a volunteer. We thank Judy Moore, our vendor coordinator Tom Paine who makes sure that vendors are settled, happy, and paying for their spaces so that we have the All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO Sven-Erik Seaholm TROUBADOUR, unless otherwise stated, José Sinatra means to produce this event. are solely the opinion of the writer and do D. Dwight Worden Last, but not least, we thank the Board of Directors of the AABA (listed on this page). They not represent the opinions of the staff or create a vision for the AABA and deliberate the organization’s activities. The Board provides management. All rights reserved. Cover Design: Chuck Schiele guidance and support to the AABA staff and enables us to be successful in our endeavors. We ©2005 San Diego Troubadour. RITE TO S also thank our members – the small businesses in the Adams Avenue Business Improvement W U ! District. They are our constituents. They are the small business person – the entrepreneur whose We’d love to hear from you! Send your sweat and toil drives the economic engine of this community. We also thank you – the discerning comments, feedback, and suggestions The San Diego Troubadour is shoppers who patronize our district’s services and shops. You are also an integral moving part of dedicated to the memory of Ellen by email to: [email protected] this economic engine. or by snail mail to: and Lyle Duplessie , whose vision Again, enjoy yourself. Make sure and come back to one of the most unique shopping areas inspired the creation of this in the City of San Diego. newspaper. San Diego Troubadour P.O. Box 164, La Jolla, CA This 32nd annual Adams Avenue Roots Festival is dedicated to the memory of Lalo Guerrero, 92038-0164 a seminal figure in the traditional music of the country. Mr. Guerrero died at age 88 on March 17, 2005. He was recognized as the father of Chicano music and inspired legions of adoring fans and acolytes like Los Lobos and Luis Valdez. Mr. Guerrero performed throughout the world. His ADAMS AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ADAMS AVENUE pachuco music of the late ’40s and ’50s provided the sound track to Valdez’s late ’70s play OARD OF IRECTORS B D ROOTS FESTIVAL STAFF Zoot Suit . He recorded over 700 songs since his first record in 1939. President In addition to receiving countless awards, including the National Medal of the Arts presented Mike Magers , Smitty’s Service Music Coordinator: Lou Curtiss by President Clinton, Lalo Guerrero was declared a National Folk Treasure by the Smithsonian Festival Coordinator: Marco A. Vice President Institution in Washington D.C. Lalo Guerrero performed at the Adams Avenue Roots Festival in Russ Vuich , Western Commercial Anguiano R.E. Brokers Vendor Coordinator: Judy Moore April of 1997. Lalo Guerrero – presente! Secretary Talent Coordinators: Kent Johnson, Dave McPheeters , Zac’s Attic Annie Ross Marco A. Anguiano Treasurer Lead Stage Manager: Dana Shocaroff Festival Coordinator Bill Keesling , Prudential Financial Production Associates: Christina Kish, Executive Director, Adams Avenue Business Association Phil Linssen , Kensington Veterinary Dan Ramet, Carlos Cabrera Stages and Sound: Audio Design Doug Generoli , Pi Financial Event Electrician: Gary McDonnell Sundi Sage , Timeless Collectibles Beer Garden Managers: Mark and TST TTS Lou Curtiss , Folk Arts Rare Records Marilyn Merrell H S Marlene Goldstein , Pet Me, Please Merchandising Coordinators: Graciela Anguiano, Rosie Duarte Karen Cobb , Creations Café & Coffee Security Supervisor: Ray Hondl Jim Lazary , New York Style Deli Security: Job Corps Robert Rael , Mojo Designs Cleanup: Gorilla Services Bob Korbett , Adams Avenue Studio of the Arts Publicity: Annie Ross, Victor Payan, Carlos Cabrera Lois Bach , Classic Bows m Graphics: Liz Abbott

www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 APRIL 2005 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle His Rough and Rowdy Ways Some thoughts on Woody’s cousin, Jack Guthrie

This essay was written some ten years ago for a publication that never saw the light of day. Since that time, three CDs have been issued on the Bear Family label ( Oklahoma Hills : BCD 15580; When the World Has Turned You Down : BCD 16412; and Milk Cow Blues : BCD 16400). Each of the recordings has a 30 or so page booklet about Jack’s life, but there are so many inconsistencies with what is written in those booklets and with what I know and remember that I’ve been somewhat reluctant to put this stuff out. It would be nice to learn the truth about another performer who died too young and whose legacy has outlived his brief fling with fame.

ed for Capitol records (the Americana have dates for any of the concerts series) and also did a series of tran - that featured Jack, Woody, or Pete, scriptions for Capitol consisting of but I do remember seeing Jack and about 40 songs. Capitol reissued one his band, along with the Sons of the LP with liner notes written by Merle Pioneers, in a Pioneer’s Day parade in Travis where we learn that Jack was Lake City, Washington, which is now born in Olive, Oklahoma, had a nice part of the North end of the city of smile, and used a bullwhip to flick Seattle. I also remember going to a cigarettes out of his wife’s lips. He hall with my folks somewhere near recorded for Capitol’s Lee Gillette in Seattle’s waterfront and seeing people He did, in fact, provide a link Jack (left) and Woodie Guthrie 1944, entered the army, and, while walk in carrying guitars and a banjo, between the 1940s sound of Red he was on an island in the Pacific, if I remember correctly. I stayed out - Foley and Ernest Tubb and the emerg - “Oklahoma Hills” became a hit side and played with my cousin Fred ing honkytonk sound, pioneered by OKLAHOMA HILLS by Lou Curtiss record**. He died, like Jimmie and remember walking with him Hank Williams, Ray Price, and others. Many a month has come and Rodgers, of T.B. down to the docks. I was about four Jack used simple backup on his gone ittle or nothing has been writ - The Encyclopedia of Country Music years old at that time I would guess. recordings, consisting of electric lead Since I wandered from my home ten about Woody Guthrie’s gives us a little more information. He In Tacoma, Washington, there guitar (probably played by Merle In those Oklahoma hills where I L cousin, Jack. We do know that was born Leon Guthrie in 1915 in was a disc jockey named Buck Ritchie Travis), standup bass, and possibly was born. he worked professionally with Woody Olive, Oklahoma and moved to on KVI who liked Jack and would drums on some of the songs; a couple Many a page of life has turned, Many a lesson I have learned; on the West Coast during the late Northern California around 1932 broadcast news bulletins about his of the songs featured a fiddle. When Well, I feel like in those hills I still 1930s and went on to a somewhat suc - when he was 17 to play music on the health. Jack was in and out of the they performed live it was about the belong. cessful country music recording career radio in Chico and Marysville. It goes Firlands Tuberculosis Sanitarium just same, although I remember when I that ended tragically with his death on to say that during WWII he was north of Seattle. I remember driving saw him in Lake City, there was no CHORUS ‘Way down yonder in the Indian from tuberculosis in 1948. stationed on the island of Le Shima, past the place with my folks, which drum and a man played a lap steel It’s been written that Jack was guitar. Of course I was seven or eight Nation where he was severely wounded and looked like old army barracks, and Ridin’ my pony on the reservation, nonpolitical and had a more com - years old then, but I seem to remem - contracted a debilitating illness as hearing them talk about “the place In those Oklahoma hills where I mercial inclination than Woody, and ber that was the way it was. I remem - well. He was hospitalized in mid-1947 where Jack Guthrie was. . . .” I later was born. certainly his music indicates this. and died January 18, 1948. It also learned from my Dad that it was ber a skinny, moderately tall man Now, ‘way down yonder in the However, I remember when he played says that his voice and material there where he had died or maybe I who everyone I knew thought was Indian Nation, at a benefit picnic for the Electrician’s showed nothing of the self-conscious - heard it from Buck Ritchie. going to be a big country music star. A cowboy’s life is my occupation, Union in Seattle, Washington, and ness or social consciousness of his After World War II, I remember We can only speculate about the early In those Oklahoma hills where I my Dad remembers that he did some - cousin, Woody, but rather that he was going into a war surplus place (the links that could have been forged was born. thing for Henry Wallace, vice presi - a country singer pure and simple. radio ads said, “The three G.I.s don’t between country and folk music if his But as I sit here today, dent under Franklin D. Roosevelt. I Again, my father, who knew Jack, pay no rent ‘cause our business is in a relationship with a leading folk poet Many miles I am away know at the time of his death and the told me that Jack played for the tent. . . .” where my Dad bought a 78 hadn’t been cut short. From a place I rode my pony few years prior that Jack worked Greater Commonwealth Federation of recording by Woody Guthrie on the I have heard there was animosity through the draw, While the oak and blackjack trees around Tacoma, Washington and Washington State for whom he also Asch label. “Poor Lazarus (Dead or between Jack and Woody over the Kiss the playful prairie breeze, played at a Western dancehall called helped set up concerts that featured Alive)” was on one side and “900 song “Oklahoma Hills.” My dad said the Spanish Castle on the Seattle- Jack always credited Woody’s author - In those Oklahoma hills where I Woody and others. I don’t have very Miles” was on the other (I think). was born. Tacoma highway. I seem to recall that much information about that group, Dad said, “He’s some kind of relative ship of the song and later would Now as I turn life a page there was a man named Shorty Long although my Father was a member, or of Jack’s and he played here in town always say, “Now I’ll sing one of my To the land of the great Osage in his band. at least I think he was. He told me awhile back.” Dad used to play that own Okie songs,” and would play Jack appeared in the Ernest Tubb “Oklahoma’s Callin’ Me” or “Okie In those Oklahoma hills where I how they organized the first of the “Dead or Alive” tune a lot, but we was born, film Hollywood Barndance and sang Boogie.” Hootenannys, which Jack wanted to played “Please, Oh Please,” While the black oil it rolls and the song “Okie Boogie.” A Tubb song call “wingdings” back during the Pop “Oklahoma’s Calling Me,” “When the I think it’s time that this man’s flows folio described him as Ernest Tubb’s Folk Revival. The group was a pro - Cactus Is in Bloom,” “Okie Boogie, music was more fully explored and And the snow-white cotton grows good buddy, although I’ve never read gressive union organization that and, of course, “Oklahoma Hills” a reissued. There is a fascinating story In those Oklahoma hills where I anywhere that they worked together invited Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, lot more. here about a unique and important was born. or even knew each other. Jack record - and others to sing for them. I don’t Much later, during the 1950s, I member of the musical Guthries that again ran into Woody Guthrie during has been too long ignored. the Folk Revival of that time and memories of Jack came back to me. I expected to see, as I have many times ** Leon (Jack) and Woody teamed up and had a radio show together on Woody, learned articles as well. over KFVD in Los Angeles. In fact I think they used [“Oklahoma Hills”] Except for the long out-of-print as their theme song. Leon got a recording contract with Capitol Capitol LP (T2456), I think it was in Records and recorded it. He was overseas when it was published and print for about six weeks or so; noth - released, and when he came back, Woody sued him for the money he ing has appeared since then except had received. Woody let him know that the money didn't mean any - for a couple of pictures and a quick thing to him; he just wanted to get his break. They signed a contract, reference or two in the Woody and Leon didn't get any more money until Woody had gotten as much Guthrie biography by Joe Klein as he did. There is a controversy over who wrote this song, and I really (Alfred A. Knopf: New York 1980) in don't know why there should be. It has always been my impression which they mention that Woody and that Woody wrote the words and Leon wrote the music. Jack played as a duo in Oklahoma and California during the mid to late Wava Guthrie Blake, letter to Dorothy Horstman, Nov. 1, 1973; reprinted in Dorothy Horstman (ed.), Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy , New York, NY, 1930s and as part of larger group with 1976, p. 343. Woody’s radio partner Lefty Lou on radio station XELO in Tijuana, Mexico (that show started on January 25, 1938). During those years Woody and Jack lived in a Chula Vista tourist court. I wonder whether any tran - scriptions survive of all those shows that they did or whether there are any transcriptions of Woody and Lefty Lou’s KFVD broadcasts. It sure would be good to know. One could say that Jack Guthrie, had he lived, would have gone on to break new ground in country music.

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y good friend Wayne Brandon folksong, changes go back a lot further with a five-year layoff in the middle. It is try music mean too many things to too has formed a task force of people and get even more convoluted. Verses probably the most under-funded, under- many people) was the stepchild of the Arts. from songs can wind up as parts of publicized major event in our city. In 32 with fundraising experience to Several years ago when San Diego was M other songs. In this day of top 40 and years of working on these festivals I’ve help with some of the projects I’m involved planning for the City’s Bicentennial (1969), very limited format radio, the computer seen ups and downs of major propor - I was asked to be on the music committee. with. He asked me to put together some gives the old music a chance to be heard tions, and right now the festival is stuck At the first meeting both the San Diego things that I’d like to take on if money again and survive. with a budget that hasn’t grown in five Opera and the Starlight Bowl people were available to do them. Here are some 2) When I opened Folk Arts Rare Records years at a time when it gets more and objected and I was booted out. They said of the ideas that I came up with. some 37 years ago I vowed that I would more costly to bring the kind of people Lou Curtiss my music wasn’t really music. I’ve run into SOME THINGS I W OULD LIKE TO DO THAT one day own my own record label that we want to have. Keeping this festival a lot of that over the past 35 years. There I J UST HAVEN ’T BEEN ABLE TO FOR LACK could do for West Coast traditional going and keeping it free to the public is visit me at Folk Arts Rare Records, 2881 OF TIME AND MONEY (Note: Having money singers what labels like Rounder, Folk my top priority. Right now the festival was an old Georgia fiddler who, on being Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116, would solve the time problem; it would Legacy, and others have done back East. just about breaks even money-wise and asked why he played the kind of music he phone me at 619/282-7833, or e-mail me free me at least some from having to keep a I don’t know if I want to take on some - the Adams Avenue Business Association, did, said, “There are over a hundred pairs at [email protected]. You can also get in which sponsor it, are more or less happy shop open every day to keep bread on the thing so complex anymore, but I’d sure of overalls sold for each one tuxedo suit.” touch with Wayne Brandon at with that, but it isn’t going to grow in table.) like to have artistic input on such a proj - The San Diego Union-Tribune has called [email protected]. ect. I’m real good at writing liner notes terms of audience and quality of per - 1) I’ve managed to put together a tape and the Roots Festival “San Diego’s finest family Thanks for your interest and hopefully (I’ve written notes and produced LPs on formers without monetary support. video library of over 90,000 hours. It event” and Joe Hickerson, curator at the your support. I’ll see you at the Roots Rounder, Advent, Blue Goose, and 5) From its early days, the Adams Avenue includes probably 90 percent of the live Library of Congress, has called it “the finest Country Routes; and CDs on Heritage, Roots Festival has tried to represent both Festival. music that I’ve presented at 31 Folk and traditional music festival in the western Krazy Kat, Country Routes, and sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. We’ve Recordially, Roots Festivals, 12 Adams Avenue Street United States.” Don’t get me wrong, there’s Fairs, four Blues Festivals, 15 Balboa Harlequin. I’ve also helped on projects brought such Latin performers as certainly a place for dress up music events Lou Curtiss Park Banjo and Fiddle Contests, and for Flying Fish, Philo, and Kicking Mule Santiago Jiminez, Lydia Mendoza, Los in our city, but there’s a place for roots P.S. More on the history of the San Diego some 200 plus concerts at my store and (around 75 different LPs and CDs). Hurricanes del Norte, Lalo Guererro, Folk Festival (aka the Adams Avenue Roots elsewhere. It includes some 30,000 If it entails researching, discography, and Los Madrugadores. Locally we’ve music casual dress events too, and that’s Festival) next time around. hours of vintage radio broadcasts (much or even finding good clean masters featured Los Alacranes, Los Californios, the kind I’ll continue to be involved with. of it musical in nature) and a whole lot owned by someone who would let us La Flor Perdida, and Julian Briano If anyone out there would like to be of music from 78s, LPs, and various duplicate them (I own good clean mas - among others. We have talked many involved in any of these projects, you can other airshots, tests, and other things. ters in many cases ), I’m your guy. At times about inviting some of Mexico’s I’d like to see much of this material any rate there ought to be an old time old time master musicians (the National (particularly the rare stuff) transferred to and traditional music record label locat - Treasures) but logistics and until now a digital format that would make it easi - ed in San Diego that does for San Diego expenses have made that virtually er to access. You keep the music alive what County Records has done for impossible. What could work is a simi - by making it easy for people to get in Floyd, Virginia, and what Rounder has lar kind of Roots Music Festival that contact with it. When you consider that done for Cambridge Massachusetts, i.e., would be held across the border in a good third of the people who have you think of those places when you Tijuana or its environs where we could played at our festivals are no longer with think of those labels. With all the tapes bring in artists that both festivals could us, it makes it even more important to of live music that I have, it ought to be a share. It would be nice to expose Mexico make an effort to keep their music alive. good start for a project and with a little to some of our roots music while we When you consider that about a tenth of seed money it could soon be paying for gain exposure to traditional Mexican and the music recorded on LP has been reis - itself. Latin American and Roots music at the sued on CD and even less from the 78 3) A Folklore or Cultural Center, which I same time that’s not often heard up here. era has been reissued on either LP or envision as mostly a central office for the I think that dual music festivals co-oper - CD, it becomes even more important to other stuff we do; maybe a place to have ating with each other could bring find, record, and pass along whatever concerts and classes. In the future it national attention (in both the U.S. and music we can. could maintain a music archives. (Right Mexico) by the media as a unique ven - I think I have pretty good taste in now my collection at Folk Arts fills that ture in keeping old music alive. music and if there’s a rare recording out bill and I don’t see any reason for dupli - I’ve always felt that roots music (I’ve there, I’m more likely to run into it than cating the effort, although I could use used that word for the kinds of music I most people. I’ve always tried to pass the some money to set up my tapes and support because both folk music and coun - good stuff along via my radio shows, videos in shelving that makes them tapes, or whatever. It would probably be more easily accessible. Likewise, my a good idea to have some kind of audio sound equipment could use some mod - blog that would allow me to put some ernization and repair.) I’d like to make good music out there, talk about it, why sure a vehicle is in place to house some it needs to be heard, and why someone of what I think is very unique material out there ought to download it and learn that I have collected over the years, after the thing and pass it along to someone I am no longer able to cope with it. else. That’s the folk process at work. Right now the Lou Curtiss Sound You would originally hear these tunes Library needs to be utilized in more on a record or on the radio and you ways than I’m doing now. The vintage worked them out your own way. A song jazz and blues in the library is heard on like “Lovesick Blues” could be recorded my radio show, airing for two hours by Jack Shea in 1921 with a verse about every Sunday night on KSDS 88.3 FM, going to the doctor in it. Emmett Miller, 8-10:00 p.m. and on the Internet at a medicine show man dropped the verse www.jazz88online.org. I’ve been doing about the doctor, added a yodel and a this show going on 19 years. At times I jazz-blues backup and recorded it in have also done radio shows dealing with 1928. Along about 1935 a country folk and old time music, bluegrass, singer named Rex Griffen, who had been gospel music, and other ethnic and roots influenced by Jimmie Rodgers blue music. For the last 10 years or so my yodels, made a record of it; Hank Jazz Roots show and sometimes Wayne Williams heard it and recorded it as his Rice on KSON are about the only old first big hit in 1949. The Hank Williams time music outlets in San Diego. That version is the one we mostly remember needs to change. A working cultural today. I’d like to put all four versions out center could be a catalyst for getting the where folks could get at them. word out about old time roots music Other songs have made that kind of and drawing more people to it. journey or even ones more complex — 4) Of course, there is the Adams Avenue from vaudeville to country to blues to Roots Festival, which goes back to 1967, jazz and back. If you get into traditional

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Welcome to the 32nd Annual Adams Avenue Roots Festival It’s that time of year again when music lovers fill the streets of Normal Heights to enjoy two days of music at the Adams Avenue Roots Festival. This year’s festival, which will be held on April 30 and May 1, has been a tradition since 1967, thanks to Lou Curtiss, music coordinator for the festival and owner of Folk Arts Rare Records. Held at San Diego State University during the early years when it was called the San Diego Folk Festival and moved to Adams Avenue in 1994, the festival features a wide diversity of music performed by old timers who come to play year after year as well as newcomers who will be here for the first time. This festival brings together the best in old-timey, traditional folk, Appalachian, bluegrass, country, celtic, blues, cowboy, conjun - to, and world music and it’s free as well as an even the whole family will want to attend.

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Carolina Bluesman LittLe Pink AndeRson A second generation bluesman from Spartanburg, South Carolina, Litttle Pink Anderson began singing at medicine shows and carnivals with his legendary father, Pink Anderson, at the age of three. He still plays and sings the songs his daddy played in the archaic Piedmont East Coast finger pick style — songs like “Travelin’ Man,” “Cook Good Salad,” and “I’ve Got Mine.” This is Little Pink’s first trip to the West Coast and his first appearance at the Mississippi Blues Adams Avenue Roots Festival. On the topics of performing and playing the guitar, he says, “I used to think that the guitar was just a way to get Honeyboy edWARds a few extra dollars and a woman, but Daddy told me, Born on a farm outside Shaw, Mississippi in 1915, David ‘One day you gonna pick up that guitar and you gonna “Honeyboy” Edwards began playing guitar at the age of take it serious. That guitar will feed you when nothin’ else Blues, Gospel, and Folk Music 14. By 1931 he was playing music with Big Joe Williams will.’” and began hopping freight trains and traveling through Anderson has always been dedicated to preserving his odettA Mississippi, Louisiana, and down the Gulf Coast either daddy’s legacy and, along the way, carving out a legacy of working solo or playing with Big Joe and Tommy his own. One of his fine CDs on the Music Maker label Odetta’s roots begin not only with folk songs but also McClennen on the streets, at country dances, or at parties. (MMCD24) features his own work as well as interpretations with theater and musical comedy. She began playing the After touring briefly with Charlie Patton, he played with the of his father’s material, which are enjoyable, happy blues, guitar and singing as early as 1949 in clubs that included Memphis Jug Band as well as Big Walter Horton, J.D. Short, ragtime, and vaudeville songs out of the medicine show San Francisco’s Hungry i and Tin Angel and The Blue and Robert Johnson at local jukes and parties around the tradition. Angel in New York City. The year 1955 found her in resi - McComb, Mississippi area. In 1939, like many Delta musi - Saturday: 2pm, Park Stage; 5pm, Beer Garden/Sunday: 2pm, dence at Chicago’s Gate of Horn where she made her first DiMille’s Stage cians, he left for Chicago where he played in Maxwell recordings for the Tradition label. Since that time and over Street’s market for tips and did one nighters with Little the past 50 years she has continued to work festivals, con - Walter, widely considered the world’s greatest blues har - certs, and clubs across the U.S., Canada, and around the monica player. Following frequent tours that took him back world. During the 1960s she brought the houses down at to the South, as well as a trip out to the West Coast, he the Newport Folk Festival and at Carnegie Hall and became eventually settled in Chicago in the 1950s. During one of the first major influence on the future careers of Joan Baez, his tours in the South, Alan Lomax recorded him in PHIL HARMONIC SEZ: Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. She has worked with artists Clarksdale, Mississippi for the Library of Congress. ranging from Pete Seeger and Count Basie to Harry Today Edwards is a walking archivist of the blues expe - Belafonte, Louisiana Red, and Sammy Price. At her first “After silence, that which rience. As a professional bluesman for 73 years it would be appearance at the Adams Avenue Roots Festival this year, difficult to name any other musician in any musical genre comes nearest to expressing Odetta will who can make that claim. the unexpressible is music.” present a program of blues on the Park Stage and sing Saturday: 4pm, Park Stage; 6pm, Church Sanctuary/Sunday: noon, DiMille’s Stage traditional gospel songs in the Church Sanctuary on Sunday. — Aldus Huxley Sunday: 1pm, Park Stage; 5pm, Church Sanctuary www.sandiegotroubadour.com 7 APRIL 2005 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR performing artists

The American Folk Singers return for an and Hank’s banjo, bouzouki, and south - the music of the Southwest for many Parlor Ballads, Cowboy Songs, and Dance Music from South of the Border encore performance at this year’s Roots ern and Balkan fiddle make the Balkan Kafe years. They present an exciting and inform - Tunes Festival to entertain the masses with their Orchestra a must-see at any Roots Festival. ative overview of these kinds of music on Los ALACRAnes offbeat blend of music from the bad old Saturday: 2pm, 34th & Adams Stage; diatonic accordion, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, days. The dynamic duo of Gregory Page 5pm, Park Stage/Sunday: 2pm, 34th & banjo, and harmonica. bob bovee And and Tom Brosseau plays songs from the Adams Stage; 4pm, Park Stage Jeanie played at the very first San Diego ’80s — the 1880s, that is. They are back Folk Festival back in 1967 (as part of Sandy GAiL HeiL from their national tour of senior citizen and Jeanie) and then again in the mid- A native homes, promoting their album, F olk Music Traditional French Folk Music 1970s with her Delta Sister Frannie Minnesotan the Way God Intended It to Be . Leopold. who plays Saturday: noon Song Swap, Church LA bAnde A Saturday: 6pm, Hawley & Adams Stage; old-time Social Hall; 2pm, DiMille’s Stage; 8pm, 8pm Song Swap, Church Social Hall/ music on gui - 34th & Adams Stage/Sunday: 11am, Sunday: 2pm, Park Stage; 5pm, Hawley tar, fiddle, Hawley & Adams Stage bonnejoie & Adams Stage; autoharp, This group, which plays traditional French banjo, and music, features Dave Allen on fiddle and harmonica, Los Alacranes are one of San Diego’s Folk Songs from Tennessee to Thessaloniki accordion, Curtis Berak on hurdy gurdy, Jay Fiddle Tunes and Traditional Country Bob Bovee used to participate in the old most beloved group of musicians and the Waelder on mandolin, Ian Law on pipes, Songs folk festivals and concerts at Folk Arts Rare pride of San Diego’s Mexican-American and Wanda Law on fiddle and accordion. Records in the early to mid 1970s. This community. The music of these “musicos bALkAn kAFe Gary and Jenna Breitbard and Bruce year he and Gail Heil are here at the Roots locos” has been described as sort of a RAy bieRL Culbertson, members of Les Campagnards Festival for the second time. Their reper - cross between the humorous style of Lalo LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS oRCHestRA who played at the Roots Festival last year, toire of old cowboy songs, dance tunes, Guerrero and the corridos and old timey LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS will appear as guests. This band is a good Back in the 1960s, parlor ballads, and mountain folk songs is norteño songs. Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez example of why these kinds of festivals are Ray was one of always presented simply and with respect explains it as Southwest-Chicano-Mexican- an important part of keeping vintage musi - those folk/country to the sources they come from. Barrio folklore. His song about a chorizo cal traditions alive. Last year a traditional singer-guitarists Saturday: noon, Park Stage; 4pm Song sandwich is not to be believed. French group was featured; this year La who played Swap, Church Social Hall; 7pm, Founded in 1977 by Ramon “Chunky” Bande a Bonnejoie, comprising mostly local almost every DiMille’s Stage/Sunday: 4pm, 34th & Sanchez and his brother Ricardo, Los San Diegans, will play the same kind of coffeehouse and Adams Stage Alacranes, along with Don “Güero” music but take it in some new directions. club. When the Knapp and Miguel Lopez, have inspired Roots Festival first Saturday: 4pm, Beer Garden/Sunday: audiences for more than two decades. Appalachian Folk Songs on Banjo, 4pm, Church Sanctuary began, Ray was Following the success of their critically involved as a performer/emcee as well as Dulcimer, and Autoharp acclaimed CD, Rising Souls , released in When the Roots Festival first moved from somebody we went to for ideas. Sometime May of 1999, Los Alacranes released SDSU to its new home on Adams Avenue, Crosscultural Music from the Southwest during the 1970s, Ray drifted up to the San Picando , originally recorded in 1989. This CuRt bouteRse the first person I got in touch with was Francisco Bay area, making his visits to San LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS group always puts on a good show. Hank Bradley. The last time he and Frannie Diego fewer and fewer over the years. Saturday: 7pm, 34th & Adams Stage; bAyou seCo While living in the Bay Area he worked I met Curt in 1963 Sunday, 3pm, Beer Garden Leopold had played was in 1987 when the LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS in an African his - final festival at SDSU was held. His wife, with Malvina Reynolds and Mayne Smith and became a driving force, along with the tory class at San Cathie Whitesides, joined them in 1994 to Diego State. He create the Balkan Kafe Orchestra. At least famous Hillbillies from Mars. Besides his Traditional American Folk Music trusty guitar, he has picked up some was carrying an one of these noble three have performed at autoharp case and every one of the Roots Festivals with their expertise on the fiddle. tHe AMeRiCAn This accomplished musician plays guitar a shape note hym - fine music and original songs culled from nal, and he looked the many years and many miles they’ve and sings in a number of styles, which span the range of traditional American like he might be FoLk sinGeRs covered in their search for great acoustic interested in some music. The trio offers plenty: Cajun songs, music. For more than 20 years, Ray Bierl (G ReGoRy PAGe & t oM has been playing the fiddle music of North of the kinds of music that I was. Shortly Greek dances, Cape Breton strathspeys, thereafter Curt and I, along with some bRosseAu ) North Carolina heat, Bosnian breakdowns, America and the British Isles to apprecia - tive contra and square dancers in the San other folks, founded the SDSU Organized and much more, by tapping into the galaxy Jeanie McLerie and Ken Keppler hail from Francisco Bay area and beyond. Cowboy Folksingers. Almost right away we talked of highly crafted scales, rhythms, and har - Silver City, New Mexico, where they play a Dancing , his well-received recording of about holding a festival there on campus. monies unavailable in either western classi - whole lot of music that includes Cajun, songs and fiddle tunes, has recently been In 1967 we finally got around to it. Curt cal or rock-related music. Frannie’s south - Norteño, northern New Mexico dance re-issued in CD format. In addition to per - played at that very first festival and he’s ern and Cajun vocals and warm guitar; tunes, old time chicken scratch from south - forming solo this year, he will also join played at every one we’ve had since. Old Cathie’s dazzling Celtic and Balkan fiddle; ern Arizona, and even some Zydeco and High, Wide, and Handsome in the Beer time Appalachian folksongs with fretless pre-Hollywood cowboy stuff. From the Garden. banjo, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, Mississippi River to the deserts of Arizona, Saturday: 5pm Song Swap, Church plucked dulcimer, and Vietnamese mouth Ken and Jeanie have been researching and Social Hall; 7pm, Beer Garden/Sunday: harp (upon which he plays Southern 1pm, Beer Garden mountain dance tunes) are his specialties. Saturday: 11am, Park Stage; 4pm Song Swap, Church Social Hall; 5pm, DiMille’s Stage/Sunday: noon, 34th & Adams Stage

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Old-Time Novelty, Vaudeville, and Ethnic Old-Time, Jazz, Cajun, and Mexican Songs Texas Bluesman group’s “Man of Constant Sorrow” California musical treasure. He must know Songs sound without any modern bluegrass licks. a couple thousand songs. I’ve seen him tHe deLtA toMCAt This is bluegrass like the Fathers played it, many times, yet he continues to surprise tHe budAPest definitely in the roots music vogue, with and amaze me. As a band musician his Robert Earl and guitarist John McKelvy mandolin is always a standout and his sisteRs CouRtney great old timey vocals a treat. sharing lead vocals. Steve Pottier plays bRotHeRs For the past LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS Saturday: 1pm, Church Sanctuary; 3pm LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS some tasty mandolin and Pat Campbell is 30 years, I was doing a Song Swap, Church Social Hall; 6pm, on bass. Their CD, Whiskey, Women and Beer Garden/Sunday: 3pm, Hawley & E.Z. Mark plays Frannie blues concert Death , pretty much describes what the Adams Stage old-time novelty, Leopold and series at Folk Arts vaudeville, and Jeanie McLerie Rare Records back songs are all about. This is the real thing. country songs have been in the very early Saturday: 2pm, Beer Garden; 6pm, Park Stage/Sunday: 3pm, Park Stage; 4pm Original and Grass-Roots Folk Songs on a four-string singing their ’70s when Song Swap, Church Social Hall banjo-guitar. He special mix of Tomcat walked also plays fiddle mint-julep into the shop and PAtty HALL vocals and LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS with Chuck asked if he could Western Swing and Country Honky Tonk Borsos and Lee Birch as the Budapest hot-peppered dance music. Frannie is a get up and do a Patty Hall began Brothers. They could just as easily be the musician and midwife in Mendocino, song or two. He did, and we’ve been her musical career Zagreb Boys or the Warsaw Guys. I’ve California and Jeanie is a fiddle teacher for good friends ever since. Tom, who hails GoLden HiLL as a teenager in heard them do Greek, French, and even an kids in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Frannie from Waco, Texas, broke into blues music the San Francisco old timey tune or two. Roots Festival goers plays music up and down the West Coast as a tap dancer in a T-Bone Walker show RAMbLeRs Bay Area. Already will likely hear E.Z. in both incarnations (most notably in San Diego with Hank back in the ’40s. He first played with his These guys played some knockout Western a diligent plunker this year with a possible surprise or two. Bradley and Cathie Whitesides in the old partner, Henry Ford Thompson, at the swing and honky tonk songs at last fall’s on her Dad’s Saturday: noon, 34th & Adams Stage; Balkan Kafe Orchestra). Jeanie plays mostly fifth San Diego Folk Festival in 1971 and at Adams Avenue Street Fair and everyone ukulele, she won 4pm, Hawley & Adams Stage; 5pm, in the Southwest with husband Ken most of them since. Tom has been respon - agreed that they had to come back. So tickets to the 1963 Church Sanctuary/Sunday: 11am, Park Keppler (in the Bayou Seco band) and with sible for giving many young San Diego here they are, kind of like Bob Wills and Berkeley Folk Stage local traditional musicians. musicians a chance to play in his bands. Milton Brown must have been during the Festival from radio Despite all the miles between them, His style of Texas blues, with influences early ‘30s when they were young and it station KPFA. That experience changed Frannie and Jeanie have continued to play ranging from Lightnin’ Hopkins to Muddy Traditional Dance Music and Parlor Songs was the happening thing. everything, prompting Hall to teach herself and sing together. Waters and B.B. King to his original men - from the Early Days of California Saturday: 1pm Song Swap, Church to play the banjo, guitar, and autoharp. Saturday: 1pm, Park Stage; 3pm Song tor T-Bone, continues to bring down the Social Hall; 3pm, Beer Garden; 7pm, With a growing interest in folk music, she Swap, Church Social Hall; 7pm, Church house. began writing and performing her own Sanctuary/Sunday: noon, Beer Garden Park Stage/Sunday: 4pm, Hawley & Los CALiFoRnios Saturday: 1pm, Beer Garden; 7pm, Adams Stage songs and eventually enrolled in the folk - For more than a Hawley & Adams Stage/Sunday: 3pm, lore graduate program at UCLA. After earn - DiMille’s Stage decade, San Singer-Songwriter with a Country Influence ing her master’s degree, she moved to Diego-based Los Veteran Fiddler and Mandolin Player Nashville to work at the Country Music Hall of Fame, where she taught banjo Californios have Old-Style Bluegrass been researching Roy Ruiz kenny HALL workshops, hosted women’s songwriting and interpreting LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS seminars, produced historical country the music of tHe eARL music recordings, and continued writing CLAyton I first saw Kenny Spanish and Mexican California, focusing LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS and performing. on the nineteenth century and the days with the old Merging her musical interests with her Roy is a pot - bRotHeRs when California was part of Spain and Sweets Mill scholarly pursuits, Patty’s music blends it ter, an artist then Mexico. This sweet, melodic music Mountain Boys all together in a fusion of old-timey tunes, (he’s done was played for dancing and singing at (Ron Hughey, Pete funky girl blues, upbeat kids’ songs, and the Roots festive gatherings hosted by the Spanish Everwine, and topical ballads, spiked with a little folkloric Festival and Mexican settlers or the Californios, Frank Hicks) at a commentary and lots of good humor. poster illus - who ran cattle on huge ranchos during cabaret concert at Saturday: noon, DiMille’s Stage; 4pm tration the their heyday in the 1830s and 1840s. the Berkeley Folk Song Swap, Church Social Hall; 6pm, last five or Working from primary sources, including Festival some time 34th & Adams Stage/Sunday: 4pm, six years), a Californio testimonials, travelers’ accounts, in the mid-1960s DiMille’s Stage guitar player, and the early sound recordings of Spanish- and again shortly after that at the Sweets a songwriter, and a singer. I first met Roy These guys sound like they come off of an speaking Californians made by Charles Mill Festival (east of Fresno in the Sierras). some 20 years ago when he wandered into old Stanley Brothers 78 recording, and sub - Fletcher Lummis almost a century ago, they He brought his unique old timey tater-bug Folk Arts Rare Records to inquire about endeavor to recreate the sound of serenade jects that they sing about don’t get too mandolin and fiddle to the third San Diego playing some music for us. He’s played and fandango from the days before far from the secular side of Hank Williams. Folk Festival, along with Fresno compatriots many times over the years and is one of California became a state. Los Californios Robert Earl Davis’ banjo drives this Jim Ringer and Ron Tinkler, and has played those guys who writes songs with lyrics


are Vykki Mende Gray, Janet Martini, Peter at most of them since. Kenny is a true that are compelling. DuBois, and David Swarens. Saturday: 11am, Hawley & Adams Saturday: 4pm, 34th & Adams Stage; Stage; noon Song Swap, Church Social 8pm, DiMille’s Stage/Sunday: 1pm, Hall/Sunday: 11am, 34th & Adams 34th & Adams Stage Stage; 3pm Song Swap, Church Social Hall FRhjFFF

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PARK STAGE CHURCH CHURCH BEER 34TH & ADAMS HAWLEY & DIMILLE’S TIMES SANCTUARY SOCIAL HALL GARDEN ADAMS PARKING LOT

11-11:45 am Curt Bouterse Robin Henkel Rock Trio with Roy Ruiz Happy Herman Joey Harris Clayton

SONG S WAP Bob Bovee & Janet McBride w/ 7th Day Buskers Budapest noon-12:45 pm Anna Troy Mary McCaslin Patty Hall Gail Heil John Ingram Am. Folk Singers Brothers Roy Ruiz Clayton

SONG S WAP Tomcat San Diego New Lost 1-1:45 pm Delta Sisters Kenny Hall High, Wide, & Tanya Rose Handsome /Golden Courtney Cajun Playboys Melody Boys Hill Ramblers

Little Pink Holdstock & Balkan Kafe Janet McBride w/ American Folk 2-2:45 pm Mimi Wright Earl Brothers Anderson MacLeod Orchestra James Ingram Singers

SONG S WAP Larry Hanks & Golden Hill Roy Ruiz Rock Trio with 3-3:45 pm Julie Henigan Kenny Hall Happy Herman Mike Marker Sourdough Slim Ramblers Clayton Joey Harris Delta Sisters SONG S WAP Honeyboy New Smokey La Bande a Budapest San Diego Bob Bovee/Gail Los Californios 4-4:45 pm Edwards Mountain Boys Heil, Patty Hall, Bonnejoie Brothers Cajun Playboys Curt Bouterse

SONG S WAP Balkan Kafe Budapest Little Pink Holdstock & Larry Hanks & 5-5:45 pm Janet McBride Curt Bouterse Orchestra Brothers Mary McCaslin Anderson MacLeod Mike Marker Ray Bierl

SONG S WAP Honeyboy 6-6:45 pm Earl Brothers Julie Henigan Kenny Hall Patty Hall Bayou Seco Anna Troy Edwards Mimi Wright Tanya Rose SONG S WAP 7-7:45 pm Golden Hill Delta Sisters Larry Hanks/Mike Ray Bierl Los Alacranes Tomcat Bob Bovee & Ramblers Marker, E.Z. Mark, Courtney Gail Heil Happy Herman

SONG S WAP 8-8:45 pm Sourdough Mary S.D. Cajun High, Wide & American Folk Anna Troy Los Californios Slim McCaslin Playboys & Bayou Handsome Singers Seco

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TIMES PARK STAGE CHURCH CHURCH BEER 34TH & ADAMS HAWLEY & DIMILLE’S SANCTUARY SOCIAL HALL GARDEN ADAMS PARKING LOT LOST CHILDREN

Budapest Neverly Roy Ruiz American Folk can be taken to the 11-11:45 am Anna Troy Brothers Brothers Clayton Singers nearest stage.

New Smokey Larry Hanks & Honeyboy noon-12:45 pm Delta Sisters Curt Bouterse Announcements Mountain Boys Mike Marker Edwards will be made

1-1:45 pm Odetta Tanya Rose Ray Bierl Los Californios New Lost Robin Henkel between songs. (blues program) Melody Boys

2-2:45 pm Bayou Seco Mimi Wright High, Wide & Balkan Kafe Julie Henigan Little Pink Handsome Orchestra Anderson

SONG S WAP Janet McBride w/ Roy Ruiz Clayton, Sourdough Slim Tomcat 3-3:45 pm Earl Brothers W. Brandon/C. Los Alacranes Kenny Hall LEGEND James Ingram Powell, Holdstock & Courtney MacLeod

STRING B AND J AM PORT -A-P OTTIES 4-4:45 pm Balkan Kafe La Bande a Bob Bovee & Golden Hill Orchestra Bonnejoie SESSION Robin Henkel Gail Heil Ramblers Patty Hall New Lost Melody Boys, Earl DISABLED Brothers, New 5-5:45 pm Julie Henigan Odetta Smokey Mountain 7th Day Buskers Rock Trio with Bayou Seco Mary McCaslin RESTROOM (gospel program) Boys Joey Harris
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Swap, Church Social Hall/Sunday: Gillespie, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie, and Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland, special - noon, Hawley & Adams Stage continued on page 12 Dave Mason. Henkel has also performed ize in traditional British folk music, which Homemade Laments and Cowboy Ballads Mountain Music and Anglo-Irish Ballads with Buddy Miles, John Hammond, Sha includes music of the sea as well as nine - Na Na, and Big Jay McNeal. teenth century Scottish and English bal - juLie HeniGAn A seasoned veteran and winner of Best lads. Still performing enthusiastically after LARRy HAnks And Blues Album at the 2000 San Diego Music 24 years, Holdstock and MacLeod trade off Awards, he has participated in numerous on mandolin and guitar accompaniments Mike MARkeR blues festivals. He is also a guitar teacher on some of their songs and frequently use LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS at the legendary Blue Guitar, where he has a cappella arrangements for their material. Larry Hanks is an been giving lessons to students who are They have mastered the art of traditional old friend of the eager to learn from the legend himself. harmonies, which are often described as Roots Festival. I Saturday: 11am, Beer Garden/Sunday: Tommy Presley, Ed Douglas, Dennis Toler, descants. Their strong melodic tones res - first heard him at 1pm, DiMille’s Stage; 4pm, Beer Clarke Powell, Ricky Araiza, and Larry onate with all who hear them sing. Garden an “old wine in Murray are all local San Diegans who have Saturday: 2pm, Church Sanctuary; new bottles” played music together on and off for 40 5pm, 34th & Adams Stage/Sunday: years — ever since the legendary Blue 3pm Song Swap, Church Social Hall concert at the Julie Henigan comes to the Adams Avenue Nostalgic Ditties Guitar opened its doors. Their combined Sign of the Sun Roots Festival from her home in Springfield, resume is impressive — some of the band bookstore in the Missouri. Her music is a mixture of Anglo- members have played with such well- Yodeling Cowgirl from Texas College area Irish and traditional southern mountain HAPPy HeRMAn known bands as the Hearts and Flowers around 1963. We ran into each other again styles. She plays guitar in some delightful Happy Herman and the New Christie Minstrels at one at the Sweets Mill Folk Festival and at a and not often-heard tunings, mountain dul - plays the ukulele jAnet MCbRide time or another. A few of them got their coffeehouse in Fresno. We brought Hanks cimer, and five-string banjo. Her songs and kazoo, pro - first taste of performing with the infamous down to play the second San Diego Folk range from old ballads to dance tunes and ducing a unique WitH joHn inGRAM Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, and all of the Festival back in 1968 and he has played at love songs. Her CD, American Stranger , is sound that is remi - Inheriting the members have been in at least a hundred a number of them since. His wonderful one of those recordings that makes you niscent of a bro - traditions of unknown bands with long forgotten bass voice, guitar, Jew’s harp, and the want to listen to it all the way through and ken radio from the the singing, names. Describing their music as “cowbil - collection of songs in his head, ranging then invite her out to play. roaring ‘20s. His yodeling cow - ly,” the band plays a medley of bluegrass, from cowboy ballads, homemade laments, music is falling forward into the past fast girl, made pop - Saturday: 3pm, Church Sanctuary; 6pm ’50s R&B, country and western music, or wry and somewhat angry topical songs, Song Swap, Church Social Hall/Sunday: and is a delight for the whole family as ular by artists blues, rockabilly, cowboy songs, folk always make for a good show. 2pm, Hawley & Adams Stage; 5pm, well as for the lonely person who has no such as Patsy music, and songs sung by Merle, Marty, Hanks has been singing with Mike Park Stage one. Montana and Buck, and Hank. Ray Bierl will be joining Marker off and on for more than 20 years. Saturday: 11am, DiMille’s Stage; 3pm, Rosalie Allen, them on fiddle. Both are the kind of folksingers that Utah 34th & Adams Stage; 7pm Song Swap, Janet McBride Saturday: 1pm Song Swap, Church Phillips describes as “the kind of singer Delta Blues Church Social Hall hails from who draws old songs and tunes out of the Social Hall; 8pm, Beer Garden/Sunday: 2pm, Beer Garden Mesquite, Texas. A participant in two pre - great well of our people’s commonly held Robin HenkeL vious Roots Festivals, her brand new CD tradition, making them over bright and Bluegrass, R&B, Country, Rockabilly, and Happy Yodeling Cowgirl on Brookhurst Robin Henkel’s new and, on occasion, making songs to Cowboy Music = Cowbilly (BRCD007) features a previously unreleased music ranges from Traditional British Folk Music and Sea throw back into the well so it won’t dry track by Patsy Montana as well as primitive, Chanteys up.” Hanks and Marker do all that and McBride’s tribute to the She Buckaroo Mississippi Delta HiGH , W ide And have a good time doing it. herself. This is Western music at its best blues and the Saturday: 3pm, Park Stage; 5pm, HoLdstoCk And from a lady who started yodeling on urban Chicago Hawley & Adams Stage; 7pm Song HAndsoMe record back in 1951, sang on the sound - sound to Texas- track of the movie Hud , and won Southern style western swing MAC Leod California Country Artist of the Year and beyond. An Dick Holdstock, awards in 1963 and 1964. After moving to amazing blues slide guitarist, Robin has originally from Texas in 1965, she teamed with Vern been playing music since the ’60s, both Sittingbourne, Kent Stoval for a time, performing with him on as a solo act and as a contributing band in the south of member. With the Robin Henkel Band, he England, and Allan uses a variety of back-up musicians whom MacLeod, from he custom picks to fit each gig. He has opened for such top acts as Dizzy

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the Grand Ole Opry. In 1981 Janet and her from a wide range of artists. elementary school principal. It was only years ago. Their huge repertoire of original husband, John Ingram, bought a theater in When Mark is not performing at either when we started doing the Roots Festivals and traditional material covers a wide Mesquite, Texas and over the next 15 years the Adams Avenue Roots Festival or the in the mid-’90s that we got back together range of styles, including bluegrass, folk, souRdouGH sLiM produced The Mesquite Opry barn dance Adams Avenue Street Fair, he manages the somehow. For the past three or four years, country, Irish, and blues. Members of the He looks like a show every Saturday night. Since that Beer Garden and its stage, enjoying the other old friends from those ’60s bands Buskers include Robin Henkel on dobro; refugee from an time, she has continued to sing and yodel chance to meet his favorite acoustic have come on board, but it’s Wayne’s Melissa Harley on fiddle; Ken Dow on old Hoot Gibson at festivals and concerts all over the coun - musicians and folk heroes. Although an Roy Acuff-sounding vocals and Clark’s bass; and Rohlf on banjo, guitar, harmoni - movie and plays try. acoustic duo, they often include guest Bashful Brother Oswald-sounding dobro ca, and vocals. With the release of three songs old and new Saturday: noon, Church Sanctuary; musicians on fiddle and banjo to complete steel guitar that give this band its unique CDs, Long Live the Caboose , Born to Pick , that reflect cow - 2pm, Hawley & Adams Stage; 5pm the sound. flavor. and Fool’s Grass , the Buskers can be seen boy life and lore. Song Swap, Church Social Hall/ Sunday: 11am, Beer Garden Saturday: 4pm, Church Sanctuary/ performing in many venues from San There’s a touch Sunday: 3pm, Church Sanctuary Sunday: noon, Park Stage; 4pm, String Diego to Seattle. Old Timey String Band of vaudeville and Singer-Songwriter Band Jam Session, Church Social Hall Saturday: noon, Beer Garden/Sunday: 5pm, Beer Garden medicine show neW Lost entertainment in MARy MCCAsLin Traditional French Cajun Music his performance, which draws a crowd and LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS Acoustic Folk provides a good time. Sourdough Slim MeLody boys hails from Paradise, California but has I first saw Mary LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS sAn dieGo CAjun when she opened played all over the country at venues rang - I’ve known all RoCk tRio WitH for Lightnin’ ing from Carnegie Hall to the Adams Hopkins at La these guys for a PLAyboys Avenue Roots Festival, where he make his Mesa’s old Bifrost lot of years and joey HARRis second visit. Bridge coffee for most of the Saturday: 3pm Song Swap, Church house in the late past 10 years Social Hall; 8pm, Park Stage/Sunday: 3pm, 34th & Adams Stage ’60s and, not they’ve been long after that, at part of the Roots the Heritage cof - Festivals. John Folk and Blues feehouse in Mission Beach. She performed Wright did old at the third annual festival in 1969. Mary time banjo work - writes very intimate songs about people shops back in the early ’80s. Dave AnnA tRoy Allen’s fiddle and Paul Johnson’s man - and things you think you know about. If The San Diego Cajun Playboys have been A relationship of 17 dolin were part of other earlier bands, too. Long-time friends Paul Kamanski, Caren you know Mary and some of what her life keeping Cajun French music going strong years has proven Banging and sawing, from backwoods Campbell, and Joey Harris play a great mix is about, her songs leave you in a slight in Southern California with a full repertoire an indestructible songs to of folk, rock, and country songs (originals daze with sparkles of insight. The songs of traditional Cajun language music. bond between fiddle breakdowns, the Boys play in the and covers) with excellent harmonies. and the way she sings them are just so Along with original members Jon Grant Anna Troy and her grand tradition of such legendary old time Saturday: 11am, 34th & Adams Stage; darned good. Mary has listened to a lot of (accordion, fiddle) and Bill Riddell (guitar), closest ally — her groups as the Skillet Lickers, the Fruit Jar 3pm, DiMille’s Stage/Sunday: 5pm, old-time roots music from Appalachian to the group features South Louisiana-born love for music. At Drinkers, and the Delmore Brothers. As the 34th & Adams Stage cowboy ballads. A lot of what she’s Joel Breaux (accordion, fiddle) from age 21 she has New Lost Melody Boys, they are perhaps heard remains in her music. Loreauville (pop. 860), and Greg Rasberry already experienced San Diego’s premier vintage old timey Saturday: noon, Hawley & Adams (triangle) from Iota and Crowley, Mexican Folk and and Country Songs the tantalizing string band. Stage; 5pm Song Swap, 8pm, Church Louisiana. intensity of life as a Saturday: 1pm, Hawley & Adams Sanctuary/Sunday: 5pm, DiMille’s Saturday: 1pm, 34th & Adams Stage; major label artist, yet she still enjoys the Stage Stage/Sunday: 1pm, Hawley & Adams 4pm, DiMille’s Stage; 8pm Song Swap, tAnyA Rose simplicity of being an artist on a local Stage; 4pm, String Band Jam Session, Church Social Hall LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS Church Social Hall level. With just her voice and guitar, she I’ve known Tanya Old Time Country, Bluegrass, and Folk inspires audiences throughout San Diego and her music with the purity of her songs and the com - Music Americana/Acoustic Roots Music Roy Acuff Songs since some time in plexity of her guitar playing. Encompassing the mid ’60s aspects of folk, blues, and pop, her music tHe neveRLy 7tH dAy when we actually is deep and affecting, and her voice is one neW sMokey played in a group that will stain your heart like that of a bRotHeRs buskeRs together for a cherished lover. MountAin boys short time. Like so Saturday: noon Song Swap, Church The Neverly LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS many musicians I Social Hall; 6pm, DiMille’s Stage; 8pm, Brothers were know, Tanya con - Hawley & Adams Stage/Sunday: 11am, I guess I met Clark Powell first, as he was formed when Mark tinued to listen and to learn new songs DiMille’s Stage one of the founding members of the San Merrell, a trans - and occasionally play in public. Her mix - Diego State University Organized plant from the ture of traditional Mexican folk and old Folksingers back around 1963. Clark and I Midwest, met time country songs has always been a Appalachian Songs and Ballads even played music together some. Clark Steve Roche, a treat. She has been at the Roots Festival plays dobro, guitar, and five-string banjo. native Southern the past few years as part of the Wayne He knew Wayne Brandon, who is the MiMi WRiGHt Californian. They Brandon-Clark Powell band and also western world’s biggest Roy Acuff fan LOU CURTISS R E MEMBERS found a common recently did some solo stuff for us. and sings Acuff songs about as well as ground with a mix of old-time country, The 7th Day Buskers are a five-piece Saturday: 1pm, DiMille’s Stage; 6pm anyone except for Roy himself. For a few bluegrass, Americana, and folk music. acoustic roots band who have been seen Song Swap, Church Social They play an eclectic mix of traditional years in the ’60s, we made what we by much of San Diego every Sunday morn - Hall/Sunday: 1pm, Church Social Hall tunes as well as interpret obscure covers thought was some pretty good music and ing at the Hillcrest Farmers Market. It was then ended up going our separate ways. here that the band formed one by one Clark became a lead guitarist in a variety of after Shawn P. Rohlf opened up his banjo Cowboy Singer Yodeler Accordionist country music bands, and Wayne became case and started busking (an old European an word for performing on the street) several

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Bluegrass that also means you, Digidesign. That was the argument I presented CORNER to my buddy Charlie who not only by Sven-Erik Seaholm plays guitar but is also a genuine patent-holding electrical engineer. He explained that ProTools (which WHY I H ATE PRO TOOLS ™ by Dwight Worden evolved from the Avid™ film editing Sven-Erik Seaholm system) has been shackled to the Mac Adams Avenue Roots Festival Temecula Bluegrass Festival You can cover a lot of topics at a band meeting. New songs, bookings, since its inception. This is because ProTools users to work on projects cre - Here’s the skinny on bluegrass music We hope you all had a great time at backing vocals, baseball, TV shows … early on, Apple computer presented ated there and vice-versa. in April that you can see and hear, and the Temecula Bluegrass Festival last you name it. Sometimes it’s just a itself to the art industries and educa - The user interface has become even join in on jamming. The Adams Avenue month. Those of us who attended heard mundane but necessary chore. Other tors as the underdog that was being more elegant, with improvements to Roots Festival is a must — you will see some great music, including the Byron times, the conversations can escalate stamped out by the overwhelming everything from the color scheme and and hear all kinds of great music, not just Berline band. Thanks to Carey Driscoll from spirited discussions to downright market share that the PC had rapidly customizable logical window layouts, folk and bluegrass, but blues, old time, and Acoustic Music San Diego, who heated debates. The one I had just a attained. Let me ask you this: Have you to the new Video Thumbnail track. and more. If you are looking for music arranged for a local Sunday evening couple of weeks ago is a great example. ever seen a Mac clone? Track Folders now help to free up valu - toward the bluegrass end of the spec - show, Byron Berline and his band also The subject had turned to record - I have one word for the able monitor real estate, as well as pro - trum, be sure to see Ray Bierl, a great did a great show in Normal Heights. If ing software, and I launched into my folks at Apple and Digidesign: Betamax . vide an improved track compositing fiddler, guitar player, and singer, and for you haven’t attended one of Carey’s usual tirade about how much I person - As a direct result of (or perhaps in spite environment, with improved editing of sure don’t miss the 7th Day Buskers play - shows at Acoustic Music San Diego (the ally hate ProTools, even clips, groups, and tracks. Even ing their hard driving music. See the same one where Roots Festival shows though I somewhat things like panning get schedule on pages 10-11 for times and are held), you should visit his web page begrudgingly acknowledge upgraded, with six stereo pan - dates for these as well as all the other at www.acousticmusicsandiego.com. it as being an “industry ning laws now supported. great Roots Festival performers. Regular Events standard.” Here’s my deal: Those of us who find our Most recording software for near-perfect volume settings Chris Stuart and 7th Day Buskers at For those of you who are players, be the PC is reliant upon the upset by subtle panning deci - Carlsbad Village Theatre sure to attend any one of the following user to put together the best sions will definitely appreci - regular events that include jam sessions system for it to run on. This ate this feature! for all levels of players: most often entails adding There’s lots of surround 1st Tuesday 7-10 pm. The North San more RAM, or perhaps even sound mixing features as well, Diego County Bluegrass installing a higher speed with 5.1, 7.1, and LCRS all and Folk Club jam and fea - processor, which (depending on supported. Surround effects such On April 23 the San Diego Bluegrass tured band event at the your current motherboard) could cost of) Apple’s short-sighted grab for cus - as the Lexicon Pantheon Surround Society will present a special concert Round Table Pizza on anywhere from $100 to $800 to tomer exclusivity, nearly 95% of all Reverb and Sonitus Surround featuring Chris Stuart and Backcountry Washington in Escondido. achieve. Yes, it’s a pain. Why do pro - personal computers owned world-wide Compressor are also included. There’s along with the 7th Day Buskers at the 2nd Tuesday 7-10 pm. The San Diego grammers insist on using every possi - are Intel processor-based PCs. even a Surround Bridge to aid in using Carlsbad Village Theatre in Carlsbad. Bluegrass Society Jam, ble resource available to your system, While Macs admittedly have stereo plug-ins in these environments. Chris Stuart and Backcountry will open open mic and bluegrass anyway? Isn’t it more advantageous to always enjoyed a smoother and slicker Speaking of effects, Sonar Producer the show at 8 pm followed by the 7th Day and karaoke events at the have a rock solid system that’s two interface, the IBM chipset they’re based Edition also comes with Sonitus:fx Buskers at 9:30 pm. Chris Stuart, a Del Fuddruckers in La Mesa’s years old than a buggy “latest and upon is far less efficient at processing Suite, with 10 automatable effects, Mar resident, has been touring nationally Grossmont Center. greatest”? Anyway, I digress. the large amounts of data inherent in including Compressor, Delay, Gate, with his fine band, Backcountry. They 3rd Tuesday 7-10 pm The San Diego ProTools ups the ante by making audio and video processing, therefore Modulator, Multiband Compressor, have three successful CDs to their credit, Bluegrass Society Jam, their software dependent upon their creating the need for these tasks to be Parametric EQ, Phase, Reverb, with songs that have reached as high as open mic, and bluegrass own proprietary hardware (and until tackled “outside the box.” In other Surround, and Wah Wah. The dynamic words, you need external processing number four on the national Bluegrass karaoke events at the recently, working exclusively on a console view also affords users five with a Mac. Hence, the ProTools Unlimited song charts. In Europe they Fuddruckers on Third Mac). Again, software updates are bands of EQ(!) per channel. and interfaces. So now I have hits that have reached number two. Street in Chula Vista. inevitable, but with each significant Digi002 MBox Add to this list improved POW-r understand the reasons for this anom - This band is guaranteed to impress 4th Tuesday 6-9 pm. The San Diego upgrade to the product, Digidesign has dithering, optimized audio engine per - aly a bit better, although I still think thanks to Chris’ great talent as a song - Bluegrass Society features required users to buy not only the new formance and a whole slew of Midi fea - it’s time for Digidesign and Apple to writer and the band’s ability to deliver top a band presentation from software, but all new hardware as well. I tures I can’t even begin address in this start thinking inside the box. limited space, and we’ve got plenty of notch original and traditional bluegrass 8-9 pm, open mic, and blue - have heard of people having to spend Unencumbered by such archaic reasons not to hate ProTools so much. music. Look for hot fiddler Paul Lee, a grass karaoke from 6-8 pm upwards of $10,000 - $20,000 just to system constraints, Sonar 4 Producer Not the least of which is that now that new member, playing with the band. at Godfather’s Pizza on take advantage of these improvements. Edition (Windows XP/2000) offers PC I have Sonar 4, I probably won’t have Hot off the release Clairemont Mesa Blvd. (at I have a capitalistic mantra: of their third CD “Anything that creates its own necessi - users many features previously unavail - to give any of my money to the I-805 southbound able to the financially imprisoned Fools Grass, which ty is unethical.” That means you are Digidesign. onramp). ProTools set, including an has received rave required to give Albertson’s your per - unlimited Viva la Revolución! Be sure to stop by number of audio and midi tracks and reviews, including sonal info for a card to carry with you Sven-Erik Seaholm is an award-winning record - Godfather’s the ability to record and playback all in last month’s all the time just to save a buck on beer. ing artist and producer through his company, Pizza for the San Diego sampling rates (44.1, 88.2, 96, 192, 384 Troubadour , the 7th That also means the $200 you have to Kitsch and Sync Production (www.kaspro.com). Bluegrass Society’s kHz, etc.) 16, 20,24, and 32 bit depths He also plays in The Wild Truth (www.thewil - Day Buskers will close the show. The shell out for model-specific tail light fourth Tuesday event in are also supported. SONAR can also dtruth.com) and has several upcoming Buskers are the winners of the 2004 San lenses every time some jackass slams April where a band import and export OMFI format files, solo/acoustic performances Diego Music Awards for Best Americana his shopping cart into your car. Sadly, (www.svensongs.com). scramble will be held. providing the opportunity for non- band. Those of you who have heard the You put your name in a Buskers know they will rock the house hat, along with the instrument you play, with their hard-driving acoustic music and names are drawn to form bands. The featuring band leader Shawn Rohlf’s bands are then given about 15 minutes to original songwriting and the super talent prepare a couple of songs that they per - of band members Ken Dow on bass, form on stage. It’s a great way to meet Robin Henkel on dobro, and national 30 people and have some fun, because you and under fiddle champ Melissa Harley. never know — you may get paired up Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the with players of all levels, ranging from door. Call 858-481-2609 or email dwor - beginner to advanced. [email protected] for tickets and info, or Have fun at the Roots Festival, and I pick them up at any SDBS event. hope to see you at some of these other events too.

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by José Sinatra today among morons but has gener - h ally been superceded by the cre - P Absolutely no one of whom I’m ation of a far more knowledgeable Daze aware got the cryptogram in my column pioneer, whose name is being two issues back, even though I clearly increasingly embraced by our mod - by Jim McInnes set the key within the last sentence of ern language. On October 15, 1961, Donald the penultimate paragraph. This set up Ulrich Holland ( Duh , for short) of Backstage a feeling of worthlessness I’ve rarely Chicago introduced a revolution on experienced, a growing restlessness the dance floor: snapping the fingers Encounters that began to toy with my physical to the beat. A simultaneous pursing Jim McInnes The scintillating Mr. Sinatra health until finally laying me out on my of the lips would signal that intense have been backstage at hun - back, coughing and sniffing and hurting concentration was in progress. tion with a question? And who really dreds of rock concerts, ice very own pair of Cheap Trick bikini Decades later, the lip-pursing badly with no one to blame, really, but cares what “they” think? Well, any - capades, tractor pulls, and circus - panties! They’re in a box somewhere remains, even though most female I myself. way, the answer is 13. Unless the es. If you’re excited by breakfast or in our garage, a reminder of all the dancers busy their hands with the road is to Damascus, which makes it So now, at the Apex of my illness, I by watching people pick up your airplay Cheap Trick never got on her task of groping back and forth turn my attention to a recent accom - only one. Quo Vadis , Zimmerman? station following the incident. through their own luxurious hair recycling every Friday, you’ll LOVE plishment that no man or woman dare 7. Why do birds suddenly appear every On another occasion, Sandi and I with little regard to the beat. The going backstage. time you are near? passed through the wrest from my C.V. (or my R.V., were I effect, on a visual level, is absurd But sometimes – Just like me, they long to be close to orbit of the planet ostentatious enough to have one.) but inevitably leads to far more something happens you. (Fade out. Then in:) meaningful displays of dexterity in that you’ll actually called Stevie Nicks. The Nineties were drawing (okay, the backs of cars when the dancing 8. How many spoonsful of sugar will remember . How this woman sketching) to a close when I first decid - ends. truly help the medicine go down? In the early 1970s, has a career I’ll never understand. She ed to find the answers to Music’s ten 2. How can you mend a broken heart? – Just one, you dip. And in a most I was a business delightful way, at that. “sings” like Helen most pressing problems. And now, – Forget all that hogwash about put - acquaintance of Keller . . . but I halfway through the Aughts, the times ting the lime in the coconut. The 9. Do you know the way to San José? Cheap Trick’s manag - digress. We were in demand revelation. Let future genera - value of that is nil, sson. Rely on the – Aw, c’mon. A saint? Really? Gosh, er, Ken Adamany. Adamany always let the basement lounge tions revere not me, but the very fact tried-and-true, relentlessly adhesive thanks. me hang out with the of the L.A. Sports that the mysteries have at last been properties of duct tape. Cain’t Just check out our address on band before anyone Arena after a authoritatively solved. Then it’ll be my nuhthin’ fix it more good. page three and write to me. Letters from females that include personal had heard of them. Fleetwood Mac show. turn. Then, and only then, my children, 3. Who’ll stop the rain? photographs will be given extra-spe - After the massive success of Cheap Fleetwood Mac — they used to be a please give until it hurts. – Only God, and only when He’s in the cial consideration, as always. Trick’s Budokan album, I went to visit killer blues band — but I digress. Oooh, I can taste it. mood. Anyway, Stevie’s fans were smother - 10. If I were a carpenter and you were them backstage before a headlining 4. In the mood? ing her with flowers and blowing 1. Who in history made it easiest to mah laydeh, would you marry me gig at the Sports Arena. My girlfriend – A truly neat-o song from the Big coke up her butt. The L.A. record dance without having to feel like the anyway? Would you have mah Sandi (now my wife) was with me. Band Era, written by a gentleman nerds we generally are? baybeh? Sandi was then the music director at company lackey was introducing her – From the moment non-contact danc - whose very name, translated from a powerful San Diego rock radio sta - to the assembled media types. Sandi Aramaic, is either José Sinatra or – Not until you learn to spell. ing began, it was no problem, really, Otherwise: eeww, gaross! tion. Along with a few other deejays and Stevie did the small talk thing to solitarily bounce around, immers - Jesus Christ, but it’s essentially the until Nicks discovered that Sandi had Well, enough of this. As you’ve and their dates, we were ushered ing oneself in one’s own groove. The same. given birth to twins. “Aaaaaaw! clearly been able to surmise, there is a backstage to be in the presence of problem was in the hands. Ten fin - 5. Do you really want to hurt me? Mutha of twins! Mutha of twins!” time for laughing and a time for not the now huge stars! Ken and I gers with ten little separate brains – To paraphrase Robin Williams, who exchanged pleasantries as we walked Stevie bleated. “Mutha of had a habit of drawing attention to laughing. This is not one of them. April helped me tackle this one: yes, to the dressing room. This time, twinnnnnns!” “Mutha of (hands themselves and their own selfish, fool to one and all, especially me. Still, George, we do. We really do, boy ... though, there was a caveat. No Sandi 247 long-stem roses) spastic ambitions. my stigmata gently seep. 6. How many roads must a man walk pictures! twinnnnnzzzz!” Spinning around, A transient by the name of Tommy down before they can call him a honking like a goose, tossing flow - “Thumbs” Way introduced the Of course, someone in our group man? ers...”Maaather of twinnnnnzzzzz!” “Hitchhiker” stance in October of took a snapshot. Stevie Nicks, America’s sweetheart, 1958. This allowed for a relaxed – Okay, first of all, who is “they”? And Cheap Trick’s security goon squad nuts as a bunny. clenching of the fingers while the what about all those roads that actu - went to work, plunging into our I had to carry all the flowers to extended thumb tried its damnedest ally go up ?Why needlessly compli - midst to try to “correct” the photog - to divert attention to other couples cate a simple question with superflu - rapher. Unfortunately, it was Sandi my car. Took me two trips. nearby. Way’s invention still survives ous ambiguity? Why answer a ques - who took the brunt of the attack, Hear Jim McInnes weekdays on The Planet landing flat on her back on the 103.7 2-7pm and then again on Sunday Arena’s hard cement floor. I yelled at nights 6-8pm for his show The Vinyl Adamany, “What the f#@k, Ken...I Resting Place ®. Hear his band, Modern thought you and me was like family, Rhythm, on April 2 at Humphrey’s once!” (That’s Wisconsin talk, by the Backstage Lounge from 6 to 8 p.m. way.) All he said was, “He shouldn’t have took da picture.” In a ridiculous attempt to make nice-nice, Adamany sent Sandi her fnert

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Lee Tyler Post Bill Monroe Charlie Poole Cliff Carlisle The Emancipate Blue Moon of Charlie Poole with Cliff Carlisle: A Freilachmachers Kentucky the North Carolina Country Legacy by Frederick Leonard And I in the by Lou Curtiss Ramblers and the Inside of the first 30 seconds by Lou Curtiss of listening, Emancipate is uttermost West Despite what compilers of near - already one of my favorite Highlanders On this CD you’ll find four ly every post- O, Brother reissue records! Here are ten beautiful hours of music by this often by Paul Hormick want you to believe, bluegrass gems in the form of expertly overlooked slide guitarist (who music starts here on disc three of by Lou Curtiss rendered songs sung by a guy mostly plays a steel bodied God said to Abraham, “Thou this set. This long-awaited six-CD with one of those voices that This CD offers an indispensable National) and superb country shalt leave thy own country, and set gathers all of the Monroe burns so sweetly from the spirit set of recordings by one of the singer. Carlisle had a varied and thy family. I will give you a land brothers 60 Bluebird 78 rpm within — that place where God finest and most popular outfits consistently worthwhile reper - and make you a great nation. I recordings, continuing on with and sex share the same space. recording in the late 1920s. Led toire embracing traditional and will bless you. I will make your Bill’s first solo efforts on Bluebird Post’s big, big urgent voice is by a singer and personality whose old time songs, Western and descendants as countless as the in 1940 and 1941 followed by the parked somewhere between the life was probably as legendary as cowboy songs, and sentimental stars in the heavens.” And ground breaking Columbia sides. rough growls of Eddie Vedder his music, Charlie Poole had a dis - Victorian parlor songs. As a mas - Abraham said, “Just one thing, On the sides featuring the cele - (Pearl Jam) and the soulful pleas tinctive vocal style and played ter blue yodeler, Carlisle displays Lord. As your chosen people, my brated Monroe brothers, Bill’s of Eddie Kendricks (Temptations) banjo in a precise three-finger his talent on a number of cuts sons and daughters will be vocals are high, moaning, and whom we all know, knew, and technique, which owed more to here. On “Shanghai Rooster despised and driven from village clearly secondary to his older came to love. With a raw but minstrel shows and ragtime than Yodel” and “No Daddy Blues” to village, from nation to nation. brother Charlie’s leads. At the out - disciplined voice, he takes manly to the clawhammer and rapping he does some quite original scat We will be persecuted as no set, Bill mostly plays the mandolin charge of every note he encoun - styles of his contemporaries. yodeling (sort of Cliff Edwards other people, and our tears will with a speedy tremolo, but on the ters, spinning his way through Adopting the name the North meets Jimmie Rodgers). be countless.” 1937 track “Sinner You Better Get this masterful CD. Carolina Ramblers, their repertoire Some tracks feature his early The Lord God thought for a Ready,” elements of his trademark The components are simple. A included traditional songs (with playing partner singer-guitarist moment and said, “Yes, your bluesy style begin to emerge. voice. A coupla guitars. Some English and Irish origins), minstrel Wilbur Ball, while others feature sorrows will be unending, but in “Muleskinner Blues,” the first bass and a little percussion. songs, old popular songs, and his brother Bill or his son return you shall be the makers of song cut at the Bluegrass Boys There’s no high-tech wizardry sentimental favorites of the day. Tommy. In addition, you can the music that holds all of life’s first session, debuted Monroe’s here. There are no existentially Their first session, Don’t Let Your hear outstanding fiddlework on joy, that best expresses its sweet - distinctive lead vocals and timing, long solos. It’s not too long. Deal Go Down, sold over 100,000 certain cuts that include a small ness, and gives voice to all your which set him apart from his con - Most impressively, there are no copies and put their name on the string band. The gospel songs sorrows. Ye will make the great - temporaries. The February 1945 reservations in its delivery. It is map. Guitarist Roy Harvey also showcase wonderful singing by est music of the ages, and ye Columbia recordings show further quite simply, honest. Even in its recorded as the leader of the a quartet that includes Carlisle, shall call this music klezmer.” development. Dave “Stringbean” quietest moments the music North Carolina Ramblers, some - brother Bill, son Tommy, and The Freilachmakers, a north - Akeman plays a two-finger style speaks loudly in its own confi - times with Poole on banjo and at another Carlisle named Louis ern California ensemble, keep banjo and, most important, fiddler dence and condition without other times with Bob Hoke on the (another brother?), including a the joy and traditions of klezmer Chubby Wise contributes long, begging for attention for atten - banjo-mandolin. Some of these terrific version of “Shine On music alive with this disk And I in smooth bow strokes. Tempos are tion’s sake. tracks are featured here, although Me.” He does a great cover of the uttermost West. (Gosh, even less manic, but Monroe’s pulsat - Post has deployed the instincts one six-track session from the Darby and Tarleton classic the disk’s title sounds biblical.) ing rhythmic mandolin fuels the of Simeon Flick (guitars, bass, February 1928 is misidentified as “Columbus Stockade Blues” and Every so often, the band switch - band. This collection includes a percussion) and Andy Machin by Poole and the North Carolina the soon to become bluegrass es gears and the tune transfers previously unknown, uncata - (production and percussion) at Ramblers when in fact he isn’t standards “Footprints in the from Jewish to Celtic, or the logued track, “I’ll Have a New Big Fish Studios. Flick and present at all. It’s all good music Snow” with Shannon Grayson mood switches from Tennessee Life,” plus ten alternate takes. By Machin’s contributions are though. on mandolin and “Girl in the to Russia, all with delightful year’s end, lead singer-guitarist equally impressive in that they Many of the group’s songs Blue Velvet Band.” results. This is not a stab at mul - Lester Flatt and then Carolina ban - offer smart changes and subtle became old time and later blue - For those of you who enjoy ticulturalism or an effort to be joman Earl Scruggs would join embellishments while clearing grass standards, including such double entendres, there are such eclectic. This is clearly a band Bill’s band, modifying their styles the way for this lion to roar. gems as “The Girl I Left in Sunny gems as “The Nasty Swing,” that knows the vocabularies of to fit Monroe’s sense of rhythm. Often times rockers start jam - Tennessee,” “Take Me Back to the “Mouse Ear Blues,” and “Sal’s these genres and is having a With fiddler Wise and bassman ming away until the mix is drunk Sweet Sunny South,“ and Got a Meatskin.” Whatever your great time. Howard Watts, the 1946-48 with cacophony, since that’s “Baltimore Fire.“ The sound quali - taste, it’s all great listening. The As though it were invented Bluegrass Boys defined bluegrass what they know or think their ty is generally excellent, although sound quality is excellent and on Second Avenue, Andy Rubin music, recording 28 masters for supposed to do. And while that a few tracks are from worn 78s the booklet notes are at least has successfully adapted the Columbia, all of which appear scenario usually strives to add (when you consider their rarity, it’s adequate. If you don’t have any clawhammer banjo to klezmer. here along with 22 alternate takes personality, or “popability,” it easy to understand). The only real Carlisle in your collection, this Annette Brodovsky shines with and 12 fascinating false starts most often dilutes it. This is not drawback is that the set doesn’t one is indispensable. her fiddle, commanding the transferred from the first-genera - that kind of record, but rather it include everything Poole record - instrument through every zing, tion 16 inch lacquers. Virtually all is a creation resulting from ed. A few unissued songs that are trill, and sigh that distinguishes these songs became bluegrass smart, innate, and heartfelt in the hands of collectors could this music of the eastern standards. choices that seem to concern have been used if a little more European Jews. And Felipe Ferraz A hardcover book, included in themselves with how strongly care and effort had been taken. and Lou Ann Weiss competently the set, includes indepth notes by the material is written. I’d also It’s also puzzling that the CD fill out the quartet on guitar, Charles Wolfe, a new discography like to say that these songs bear doesn’t include a couple of unre - bass, and cello. by Neil Rosenberg, and extensive that magical quality where the leased tracks that have been reis - photos, many previously unpub - music sounds like the words sued on LP. Still, apart from these lished. If you look around you’ll being sung, and vice versa. fairly minor drawbacks, this is a find cheaper releases of a lot of Further, Lee Tyler Post sings with major and inspiring collection of this material, but remember, this ease. His triumph isn’t so much old time music that every collec - is material that every bluegrass fan that he finally sang it right, so tor and aspiring old time musician should own, all together, all in much as that he’s so willing and needs to listen to and hopefully to one place. Sometimes it’s worth so capable to sing so nakedly own. It couldn’t hurt bluegrass springing for the money for a honest. musicians to hear from whence chocolate mousse over a Believe him for yourself at they came either. Hershey bar. www.leetylerpost.com

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Jenn Grinels Curtis Peoples Shadowdogs Cris Williamson Little Big Men Jenn Grinels Whisper to a Halfway to Real Deal Live at Jimmy Duke’s by Simeon Flick Scream Someday by Tom Paine Veteran female singer-song - by Simeon Flick It’s a shame that most inde - by Tom Paine by Frederick Leonard pendent musicians don’t have writer Cris Williamson shines A live album is usually a dicey access to major label resources; Singer-songwriters routinely So, yer boots are a bit dusty, down like primordial starlight on proposition; it’s all too easy for a amazing up-and-coming talent is take on the unenviable task of try - are they? Feelin’ kinda parched, the postindustrial wasteland. Like band to make mistakes and not hard pressed not to suffocate in ing to say something new about are ya? Long day? Sounds like your favorite über-hippie aunt, deliver a good performance due studio sacrifices made due to old things. Like love. Or feelings. you could sit a spell, pop a brew, Williamson conjures up a gentle to nervous sentience of the show financial limitations. This dearth Without a shred of irony or self- and mellow out on the porch as world of Birkenstocks and home - being recorded. A live set is usual - manifests itself here in the form conscious distancing Curtis you stare out over the high- made soup. This is folk music the ly only something a band of a painfully brief five-song pro - Peoples wades heart-deep into the desert ridge in the distance, lis - way the goddess intended it — attempts after accruing many stu - gram and questionable drum per - familiar landscape of young love tening to the new Shadowdogs full of gentle outrage; whimsical, dio albums and years of stage formances and production on a gone bad. release, Halfway to Someday . This plaintive protest; and infinite affir - experience. It is a benchmark of a couple tracks—but you won’t With all the youthful earnest - dreamy-drowsy Americana mation. She doesn’t want so band whose long life on stage has notice or care about these negli - ness he can muster, Peoples sound rolls through your person - much to scold as to take you in honed their performing and writ - gible anomalies like a nitpicking makes solid OC-ready secretary al space like a tumbleweed in her arms and hold you until you ing chops to a superlative degree. critic does. rock, you know, the kind of stuff slow motion strolling down an confess all your sins and weep for That’s why this CD is such a joy to This is a major tour de force for they play on Star 100. It’s not a old Arizona highway. the forgiveness that is of course hear — it’s resplendent with the Jenn Grinels, whose powerfully bad thing. In fact, he’s really Halfway to Someday contains already yours. This Earth Mother sound of three old pros complete - supple voice could shatter crystal good. I bet chicks dig him. His 14 very polished tracks that sees your secret heart and forgives ly relaxed and in their element. for days and makes one think that voice is deep and true, the musi - would take a likely slot on the all. Come back home, prodigal The songwriting is there, the some amount of musical training cianship is top notch and the pro - record store shelf halfway sons and daughters. musicianship is there, and the (Jenn’s is in musical theater) duction has that nonthreatening between the Allman Brothers Williamson’s music wraps crowd is there too, following should be de rigueur for all aspir - sheen that marks so much guy and the Eagles. Pedal steels and around you like a warm blanket, them through every poignant ing artists wanting to earn their pop these days. Not as overbear - guitars are the signature of this and in the safety of its embrace, twist and turn, every life-affirming wings. This record rocks like Heart ing as Matchbox 20, less scaty sound, supported by a snappy your pretensions melt like butter dynamic shift, every whimsically without the glam kitsch, and Jenn than Jason Mraz, more grounded rhythm section, piano, and gen - on a hot bran muffin. Don’t even clever turn of phrase. Grinels is an introspective Ann than Counting Crows, Curtis erous dosages of harmony. This try to mount your arguments to Who needs a full band when a Wilson for the new millennium. Peoples stays hard to the middle is the kind of effort that explores her liberalism, just go with it. You versatile, sagacious three-piece Grinels is a triple threat; adroit of the road and ends up taking us the traditions of the music the know that beyond the differences, will do? Virtuosity is endemic guitar chops accompany her somewhere anyway. Shadowdogs love over any she probably knows you better across the board, whether it’s the white-hot vocals (listen to her fin - There’s nothing phony or pre - determination to set new-fan - than you know yourself. So what soothing vocals and deft guitar ger-picking on “This Is: The tentious about this record. Its gled trends. You can hear if she wears her sexual orientation work of Dan Connor, the soulfully Graduation Song‚” and “The honesty is endearing. Peoples is a respects paid to Dickey Betts and like a brand? Who cares if she prodigious harmonica of Dan Plea,” and the tight acoustic talented pop song writer and a Don Henley as well as Jack uses the word “mystery” too Byrnes, or the crack percussion of rhythms everywhere else). And very good singer. And he even Tempchin — all the while much? As sure as rain, she isn’t “Bongo” Bob Goldsand. The yet it’s obvious that she still puts creates real drama and pathos on remaining true to the faking any of it. And that’s what sound is remarkably full consider - invaluable time into her songwrit - some songs. The emotional high Shadowdog point of view. makes it work. Records like this ing there’s no bass guitar, and any ing craft, although she could’ve point is a duet with another San Bruce Fitzsimmons, Franklin often falter on their own vanity. band that can captivate an audi - easily succumbed to the license Diego standout, Saba. Hearing Jenkins, and Jon Scarantino do But Williamson strikes just the ence while occasionally engaged often abused by others in letting Saba sing "Don’t say that you love the bulk of the writing and right pitch of poise and abandon. in the dying art of improvisational those chops prop her up on me, let me here it from your singing. Scarantino plays bass Art without artifice. An endless soloing are masters indeed. weaker material. friends so I can know that you’re while the other two play a vari - seeker and world traveler, as hon - Stylistically, the music itself is There’s no leading lady carry - proud to be in love" is a good ety of guitars. Kevin Glassel est as she gracious, Williamson acoustic based, and the ever ing a bad movie here; the lyrics example of a writer saying some - keeps the band together on wears her years well. They don’t idiomatic harmonica lends an oth - are deep and visceral, revealing thing new about an old theme. drums and percussion, along call them laugh lines for nothing. erwise quintessentially American the wildly poetic thoughts of a On the other end of the spectrum with an able roster of special Sounding like a less depressed feel to the proceedings. However, soul tortured by romantic schism is the unremarkable chorus of the guests who also contribute more Shawn Colvin, Williamson has you’ll be flummoxed at how they and social alienation. “Friction” album opener "Hope it Seems", a guitar work. Steve Wetherbee is carved out a long career on the manage to blend in so many and “The Toothbrush Song” are standard semi-angry break up credited with this slickly record - women’s music circuit. With 16 other styles so seamlessly, often in vitriolic ex-lover kiss-offs that will send off where Peoples sings over ed bare-bones documentation of albums under her wallet chain, the same song. “American Wake” prostrate you with their roller - and over "And the rain is falling the sometimes melancholy, her smooth expertise and deeply is an instrumental that pairs a coaster live-show intensity. “This down on me". Wasn’t using "rain sometimes dreamy, and at other rooted writing are a welcome Zydeco beat with Revolution era Is: The Graduation Song” strug - falling down on me" as a times upbeat band. change from the often over - snare work. “Busted Love” is an gles with coming of age, and metaphor for sadness outlawed at The thing I especially like wrought, self-important work that admixture of New Orleans Dixie “God Blessed the Pretty People” the 87th Annual Songwriting about the work here is the con - passes for folk music these days. blues backed by calypso is a revelatory recount of some - Crimes Convention in Geneva, stant element of elegance. Every One can only speculate that she congas. one who has, perhaps through Switzerland last summer? No? My song is graceful and beautiful, might exorcise her demons in her What comes through most on rejection (although Grinels is bad. regardless of tempo or mood. lectures and workshops so that this release is the exhilaration of hardly chopped liver!), chosen to Technically, this is an EP. The And every song — all overtly when it comes time to sing she three performers who revel in the value personality and depth over seven songs clock in at around Americana in style — seems to chooses to celebrate rather than joy of entertaining an audience appearance. twenty-five minutes. One might contain one extra layer of influ - denigrate. With a garland of well and are still going strong. Grinels and her skillfully crafted be left longing for a wider range ence that lends its subtle com - nature imagery, neo-paganism, Perhaps the album art concept, EP have a prodigious sound that of themes and ideas. But the bot - plexity to each track and, there - Rumi references (and even some coupled with the first song, says it belongs on a big label. Listening tom line is this. Peoples explores fore, its own identity. Well done. recurring “red room” themes that best; the Little Big Men liken to her record will fill you with ide - the pathways of the heart with You can see where the tumble - sound like outtakes from the themselves to a photo of three alistic notions of how American potent emotional honesty. He weed wanders at www.shadow - Vagina Monologues ), Williamson bristlecone pines, a species of Idol hopefuls could be judged: thinks a lot about girls. How he dogs.com. drapes the world with flowers and ancient and grizzled yet wildly with more emphasis on talent loves them. How he resents them. never looks back to see those in expressive trees that are in for the and craft, and with the contest - How he pushes them away. How pursuit. If she saw them, she long haul.” ants singing their own words and he wants them back. And why. A would just hug them and laugh music. Buy this CD now and hop lot about why. I really hope he anyway. Available at this train before it leaves the sta - finds a good woman soon. But www.criswilliamson.com tion! then I wonder what he would Available at www.jenngrinels.com write about. Available at and cdbaby.com. www.curtispeoples.com. www.sandiegotroubadour.com 17 APRIL 2005 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ’round about

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The Parting Glass (Celtic ensemble), APRIL CALENDAR every sunday Turquoise Cafe-Bar Europa, 873 Turquoise St., 7:30pm. (every Wed. except Feb. 23.) 7th Day Buskers , Farmers Market, DMV parking lot, Hillcrest, 10am. Open Mic Night , The Packing House, 125 S. Derek Evans/Until John/Gabriella Lalicata Terra Naomi/Jennifer Lee/Alex Esther/ Main St., Fallbrook, 8pm. friday • 1 Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, Twigg w/ John Randolph/Jamie Crawford/Jimmy Aaron Bowen/Ted Ehr , Twiggs, 8:30pm. St. & San Diego Ave., noon-5pm. Open Mic Night , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Burt Turetzky & Mark Dresser with the Atto/Bologna Ponies , Twiggs, 8:30pm. The Big Provider/Jackie Daum , Lestat’s, Highland Way , Tom Giblin’s Pub, 640 Grand sidea/sideb ensemble , Dizzy’s, 8pm. Traditional Irish Music , Tom Giblin’s Pub, 640 Acoustic Campaign for Quiet , Lestat’s, 9pm. 9pm. Grand Ave., Carlsbad, 3pm. Ave., Carlsbad, 8:30pm. Brian Goodwin/Matthew Jordan/Campaign The Joey Show , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., for Quiet/Keri Highland/Midnight Rooster , Irish Dance , Dublin Square, 554 Fifth, 3pm. Pat Molley , Egyptian Tea Room, 4644 College saturday • 9 9pm. Ave., 9:30pm. Twiggs, 8:30pm. 21 Grams , O’Connell’s, 1310 Morena Blvd., Celtic Ensemble , Twiggs, 4pm. Gregory Page , Lestat’s, 9pm. Jeff Moats , Earth Arbor Day, Old Poway 9pm. Traditional Irish Music , R. O’Sullivan’s, 188 Park, 11:30am. every thursday Yonder Mountain String Band , Belly Up, E. Grand Ave., Escondido, 4pm. John Bosley & Greg Campbell , Crossroads Acoustic Cafe Open Mic/Open Jam , saturday • 2 9:30pm. Traditional Irish Music & Dance w/ Milano’s Pizza, 6830 La Jolla Blvd., 7-10pm. Cafe, 169 E. Main St., El Cajon. 7pm. Cobblestone, 5-6:30pm/Boxty Band, 6:30- Modern Rhythm , Humphrey’s Backstage Molly’s Revenge , San Dieguito United 10pm., The Field, 544 Fifth Ave. Irish Music Class , Acoustic Expressions, Lounge, Shelter Island, 6pm. 2852 University Ave., 7-8pm. Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdalena, saturday • 16 Jazz Roots w/ Lou Curtiss , 8-10pm, KSDS Steve White/Fabulous Pelicans , Avo Encinitas, 7:30pm. Info: 858/566-4040. Festival Del Mar w/ Macy Gray/Etta (88.3 FM). Sue Palmer , Martini’s, 3940 4th Ave., 7pm. Theater, 303 Main St., Vista, 6:30pm. Duelling Keyboards: Music for Piano & James/Taj Mahal/Jason Mraz & more , Del Open Mic Night , Blarney Stone Pub, 5617 Open Mic Night , Crossroads Cafe, 169 E. Jim Earp , Upstart Crow, Seaport Village, Organ , Unitarian Church, 4190 Front St., Mar Fairgrounds. Info: 619/220-8497. Balboa Ave., 9pm. Main St., El Cajon, 7-10pm. 7:30pm. 7:30pm. Celebrating Women’s Voices w/ Judy Fjell The Bluegrass Special w/ Wayne Rice , 10- Open Mic Night w/ Timmy Lee , The Packing Muddy Waters B-Day Tribute , Dizzy’s, 8pm. Eve Selis , Valley Music, 530 E. Main St., El & Peggy Watson , Swedenborgian Church, midnight, KSON (97.3 FM). House, 125 S. Main, Fallbrook, 8pm. Cajon, 8pm. Campus/Tyler Sts., Hillcrest, 10am-9:30pm. Berkley Hart/Jennifer Spector , Bamboo Traditional Irish Music , Acoustic Yoga, 1127 Loma Ave., Coronado, 8pm. Holiday & Adventure Pop Collective/Martin Truckee Brothers CD Release , M-Theory, every monday Expressions, 2852 University Ave., 8:15pm. Roy Ruiz Clayton/Just John & the Dude/ Storrow/Michele Rae Shipp/Jimmy Atto , 3004 Juniper, 3pm. Twiggs, 8:30pm. Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, Twigg Joe Byrne , Blarney Stone, Clairemont, Dave’s Son/The Westgoing Zax/Krister Allison Lonsdale , Lestat’s, 6pm. St. & San Diego Ave., noon-5pm. 8:30pm. (also Fri. & Sat.) Axel , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Candye Cane CD Release/Sue Palmer & Simeon Flick , Hot Java Cafe, 11738 Carmel Tango Dancing , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., 8pm. Clay Colton/B.J. Morgan , R. O’Sullivan’s, 188 Robin Henkel , Lestat’s, 9pm. her Motel Swing Orchestra , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Mountain Rd., 7pm. Napa St., 9pm. E. Grand Ave., Escondido, 8:30pm. Border Radio , Templar’s Hall, Old Poway Open Mic Night , Lestat’s, 7:30pm. Young Dubliners , Belly Up, 9:15pm. Swing Thursdays , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., Isaac Cheong B-Day Bash , Lestat’s, 9pm. Park, 7pm. Info: 858/566-4040. tuesday 9pm. Tribute to Great Ladies of Jazz , Dizzy’s, every sunday • 3 8pm. Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, Twigg Brehon Law , Tom Giblin’s Pub, 640 Grand sunday • 10 Ave., Carlsbad, 9pm (also Fri. & Sat.). Randi Driscoll & Friends , Dizzy’s, 8pm. Terra Naomi/Borne/Jen Knight/Curtis St. & San Diego Ave., noon-5pm. Cowboy Jack Johnson , Del Dios Country Jazz, Latin Jazz, Bossa, & Blue , Turquoise Augustana/Andrew Foshee , Lestat’s, 9pm. Store, 20154 Lake Dr., Escondido, 5pm. Peoples/Kat Parsons/Low Flying Mosses , M-Theory New Music Happy Hour , Whistle Twiggs, 8:30pm. Stop, South Park, 5-7pm. Cafe-Bar Europa, 873 Turquoise St. Call Marti Lynch CD Release , Dizzy’s, 7:30pm. 858/488-4200 for info. Eve Selis , Lestat’s, 9pm. Zydeco Tuesdays , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa, 7pm. tuesday • 5 The Coyote Problem , Lestat’s, 9pm. Bodeans , Belly Up, 9:15pm. Open Mic Night , Cosmos Cafe, 8278 La every friday The Brombies , NCBFC meeting, Round Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, 7pm. Table Pizza, 1161 E. Washington, Escondido, tuesday • 12 Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, Twigg 7pm. sunday • 17 Open Mic Night , Crossroads Cafe, El Cajon, St. & San Diego Ave., noon-5pm. 7pm. Matt Curreri & Ex-Friends/Paul Curreri/ Muzik3 Festival , The Other House, 7813 California Rangers , McCabe’s, Oceanside, Esterel Dr., La Jolla, 7:30pm . 858/405-0413. Festival Del Mar w/ Macy Gray/Etta Gregory Page/Joanie Mendenhall/ Angela James/Taj Mahal/Jason Mraz & more , Del Traditional Irish Music , The Ould Sod, 7pm; 4:30-9pm. Blarney Stone, Clairemont, 8:30pm. Correa , Casbah, 9pm. 7th Day Buskers/The Mammals , Casbah, Mar Fairgrounds. Info: 619/220-8497. Irish Folk Music , The Ould Sod, 9pm. 9pm. Comedy Night w/ Mark Serritella , Lestat’s, Sheila Jordan w/ Rick Helzer, Gunnar Open Mic Night , Egyptian Tea Room & 9pm. Lou’s B-Day Bash w/ Anya Marina/Greg Biggs, Duncan Moore , Dizzy’s, 8pm. Smoking Parlour, 4644 College Ave., 9pm. wednesday • 6 Laswell/Gregory Page/Itai , Lestat’s, 9pm. Atom Orr/Lisa Sanders/Andy Stochansky Simeon Flick , O.B. Farmer’s Market, 4pm. , every wednesday Jazilla , Turquoise Cafe-Bar Europa, 873 Lestat’s, 9pm. Turquoise St., 9pm. Drive By Truckers , Belly Up, 8:30pm. wednesday • 13 Ocean Beach Farmer’s Market , Newport Ave., 4-7pm. Muzik3 Festival , The Other House, 7813 every saturday monday • 18 Joe Rathburn , The Galley, 550 Marina Pkwy, thursday • 7 Esterel Dr., La Jolla, 7:30pm. 858/405-0413. Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, Twigg Toots Thielemans/Kenny Werner/Oscar Chula Vista, 6:30-9:30pm. Siren Open Mic for Women , Korova Coffee, Anna Troy/Nathan James/Billy Watson/ St. & San Diego Ave., noon-5pm. Castro-Neves , Neurosciences Institute, Clay Colton/Craig Yerkes , Monterey Bay 4496 Park Blvd., 8pm. Robin Henkel/Ben Hernandez , Lestat’s, Talent Showcase w/ Larry Robinson & the 10460 Hopkins Dr., 8pm. Canners, Oceanside, 7pm. Chris Carpenter/Proper Jive/Kellis David/ 9pm. Train Wreck Band , The Packing House, 125 Davida , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Pride of Erin Ceili Dancers , Rm. 204, Casa S. Main St., Fallbrook, 8pm. del Prado, Balboa Park, 7pm. Pete Thurston , Lestat’s, 9pm. wednesday • 20 Clay Colton Band , Tom Giblin’s Pub, 640 thursday • 14 High Society Jazz Band , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Grand Ave., Carlsbad, 90pm. High Grass Rollers , The Dog, Pacific Not So Silent film Festival presents Eric Hutchinson/Proper Jive/Eddie Napa St., 7pm. Beach, 9pm. “Phantom of the Opera” w/ the Teeny Tiny Christian/Gospel Open Mic , El Cajon. Info: Anthony , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Pit Orchestra for Silent Films , San Diego 21 Grams J.D., 619/246-7060. , Acoustic Lounge @ Dreamstreet, The Samples , Belly Up, 8:30pm. Museum of Art, Balboa Park, 6:30pm. Ocean Beach, 9pm. Jack the Original/Tim Corley , Lestat’s, 9pm. Sue Palmer & Blue Largo , Patrick’s II, Fifth Michael Tiernan , Martini Ranch, Encinitas, Ave. & F St., 9pm. Clifford Brown Tribute w/ Gilbert Castellano wednesday • 27 friday • 8 9pm. The Sorrow Band/Greg Laswell/Brian , Dizzy’s, 8pm. 7th Day Buskers/Chris Stuart & Keltik Kharma , Dizzy’s, 7pm. Vance Gilbert/Coyote Problem , Acoustic Mitchell , Lestat’s, 9pm. Backcountry Music San Diego, 4650 Mansfield St., , Carlsbad Village Theater, Samantha Murphy/Andrew Foshee/Little 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. friday • 15 2822 State St., 8pm. World , Lestat’s, 9pm. thursday • 21 Dickey Betts Sue Palmer Trio , Bookworks/Pannikin, Del Stacey Earle/Mark Stuart , Acoustic Music , Belly Up, 9pm. Mar, 8pm. San Diego, 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. Ellis Paul , Acoustic Music San Diego, 4650 Berkley Hart , Lestat’s, 9pm. 619/303-8176. Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. thursday • 28 Death Valley Pizza CD Release , Metaphor Cafe, 258 E. 2nd, Escondido, 8pm. Afro-Cuban Jazz Extravaganza , Dizzy’s, Proper Jive , Twiggs, 8:30pm. sunday • 24 8pm. Cash Only (tribute to Johnny Cash) w/ 21 Jen Chapin , Acoustic Music San Diego, Grams/Coyote Problem/Neverly Bros./Men Peter Pupping Quartet , Bistro Soleil, 641 S. 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. in Black/Deadline Friday , Winston’s, 9pm. Coast Hwy. 101, Encinitas, 4:30pm. Anna Troy/Proper Jive , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Acoustic Underground , Lestat’s, 9pm. Annie Bethancourt/Dustin Shey , Lestat’s, Sue Palmer CD Release , Bali Hai restau - 9pm. friday • 22 rant, Shelter Island, 7pm. Steve Kujala & Peter Sprague w/ Mesa friday • 29 Clare Muldaur/Lisa Moscatiello , Acoustic College Big Band , Dizzy’s, 7:30pm. David Wilcox Music San Diego, 4650 Mansfield St., Chuck Pyle , Acoustic Music San Diego, , Acoustic Music San Diego, 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Jim Earp Fred Benedetti & George Svoboda , Dizzy’s, Jane Lui/Seth Horan/Marina V. , Lestat’s, , Bookworks/Pannikin, Del Mar, 8pm. 9pm. 8pm. Gordon Lightfoot , Sycuan Casino Theatre, Band in Black , Cask & Cleaver, 3757 S. 8pm. 619/659-3380. Mission Rd., Fallbrook, 8pm. Pete Stewart/Rheanna Downey/Kat Jones/ monday • 25 Todd McLaughlin/Campaign for Quiet , Palomar College Jazz Ensembles , Dizzy’s, Lila Nelson/Casey Connor/Lauren Twiggs, 8:30pm. 7:30pm. DeRose/Paper Saloon , Twiggs, 8:30pm. The Album Leaf , Belly Up, 9pm. Toots & the Maytals , Belly Up, 9pm. The Blasters w/ Eve Selis , Belly Up, 9pm. Biddy Bums/Emerson Band , Lestat’s, 9pm. Bushwalla CD Release , Lestat’s, 9pm. tuesday • 26 saturday • 23 Edie Carey/Amber Rubarth , Acoustic Music saturday • 30 Jeremy Serwer & Acoustic Minds/Kim San Diego, 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS FESTIVAL , 10am- DiVincenzo/Tim Mudd/Dominic Castillo & 619/303-8176. 9pm. the Rock Savants/Masayo & Robert , Simeon Flick , Cosmos Cafe, 8278 La Mesa Twiggs, 8:30pm. Blvd., 7pm. Jim Earp/Tom Boyer , San Dieguito United Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdalena, Encinitas, 7:30pm. Info: 858/566-4040. Sam Kang/Brian Goodwin/Just John & the Dude/Kyle Phelan/The Night After , Twiggs, 8:30pm. 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