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FREE SAN DIEGO ROUBADOUR Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news February 2008 www.sandiegotroubadour.com Vol. 7, No. 5 what’s inside Welcome Mat ………3 Contributors O Berkley, Where Hart Thou? The Earl Brothers Full Circle.. …………4 Jimmy Webb Recordially, Lou Curtiss Front Porch... ………6 Gypsy Jazz Tapwater Parlor Showcase …8 Walt Richards & Paula Strong Ramblin’... …………10 Bluegrass Corner Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Stages Highway’s Song. …12 Applebrown Jazz Ensemble John Batdorf Of Note. ……………13 Tapwater D.A. & the Hitmen Allied Gardens Larry White Justin James ‘Round About ....... …14 February Music Calendar The Local Seen ……15 Photo Page FEBRUARY 2008 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR welcome mat “O Berkley ,Where Hart Thou?” RSAN ODUIEGBO ADOUR Rounds Up the Talent a Third Time Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news by Dwight Worden For tickets and info visit the Berkley Hart web site at www.berkleyhart.com. Tickets are $20 and the show starts at 8 pm. You can also MISSION CONTRIBUTORS t began with the Coen brothers movie O’ listen to portions of the CD release of last year’s To promote, encourage, and provide an Brother Where Art Thou? , starring George FOUNDERS show through a link on the Berkley Hart web alternative voice for the great local music that Ellen and Lyle Duplessie Clooney (backed by the voice of Dan site to get yourself in the mood. is generally overlooked by the mass media; I Liz Abbott Tyminski of Alison Krauss and Union Station). Jeff Berkley & Calman Hart namely the genres of alternative country, Kent Johnson The film showcased wonderful roots musicians Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and PUBLISHERS and their music bringing this great American art bluegrass. To entertain, educate, and bring Liz Abbott form out of the shadows and introducing it to a together players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson forms; to explore their foundations; and to mainstream audience, which, it turns out, loved expand the audience for these types of music. EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS the film and the music. The hugely popular Liz Abbott movie was followed by the equally successful The earl BroThers revive old SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local source for Chuck Schiele Down From the Mountain Tour, which brought alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, ADVERTISING many of the film’s musicians live to cities around blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news, Timey TradiTion Their own way Kent Johnson is published monthly and is free of charge. the U.S., including a stop in San Diego for a Letters to the editor must be signed and may be BUSINESS CONSULTANT show at the Coors Amphitheater. Prominent local edited for content. It is not, however, guaranteed Joanna Schiele musicians Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart of by Larry Rose that they will appear. DISTRIBUTION Berkley Hart fame followed with their own ver - All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO Kent Johnson sion of a folksy roots show presented in North usicologist and local roots music legend TROUBADOUR are solely the opinion of the Dave Sawyer County, which showcased some of San Diego’s Lou Curtiss seems to find the best of the writer and do not represent the opinions of the Mark Jackson top roots talent, and cleverly titled it O’ Berkley m new bands that carry on the old time string staff or management. All rights reserved. Indian Joe Stewart Where Hart Thou? band tradition before anyone else. He brought the Dan Long ADVERTISING INFORMATION Earl Brothers to the Adams Avenue Roots Festival Peter Bolland O’Berkley Where Hart Thou? was so success - For advertising rates, call 619/298-8488, e-mail ful its first year that it had a repeat last year and a few years ago and they were an instant hit with [email protected], or visit www.sandiegotrou - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER traditional music lovers. Traditional, yes, but badour.com Steve Covault is now back for its third incarnation on February 9 at the Seaside Church in Encinitas. Last year’s there was so much more to this group to the SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for $30/yr. WEB MASTER show was a sell out and the audience loved it. point that they can’t be easily categorized. They The Earl Brothers at a Clarke House Concert last year Send check payable to S.D. Troubadour to: Will Edwards are not bluegrass but they play banjo, mandolin, Pre-show unamplified entertainment was provid - San Diego Troubadour guitar, and dog house bass. They are not a tradi - this band adequately. The roots to the dim past P.O. Box 164 WRITERS ed by Shawn Rohlf and his 7th Day Buskers as tional mountain music string band as they do are there but the rest is totally original. La Jolla, CA 92037 Mike Alvarez snacks were served in the entry hall, contribut - Peter Bolland nothing but original material. So what are they? The driving force behind this outfit is Bobby WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy of the ing to the ambiance and anticipation that one Lou Curtiss The only thing this reviewer has heard that Earl Davis, the banjo player. The writer of many San Diego Troubadour? Go to was attending an old style musical community Simeon Flick was similar to their sound was the tight har - of the songs, his bouncing banjo style is similar www.sandiegotroubadour.com and click gathering. The show itself featured, of course, on FIND AN ISSUE for a complete list of Paul Hormick monies of the Stanley Brothers before 1966. to the late Don Reno but, again, different. Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart, supported by a locations we deliver to. Jim McInnes When Carter Stanley passed away that year, Ralph Mandolin picker Larry Hughes built the classic spectaculr group of musicians that included Tim Mudd soldiered on but his sound was never the same F-5 style instrument he plays and has a sort of SUBMITTING YOUR CD FOR REVIEW Gregory Page, Lisa Sanders, Tim Flannery, the If you have a CD you’d like to be considered for Larry Rose again. It took 40 years for me to hear the kind of “punch and flutter” playing style. James Touzel 7th Day Buskers, Eve Selis, and more. The show review, please send two copies to: San Diego Raul Sandelin old time harmony singing that was at all similar and Danny Morris round out the band on guitar Troubadour, P.O. Box 164, La Jolla, CA 92037. Chuck Schiele was nominated for a San Diego Music Award in to that high-harmony mountain sound that ended and bass. Everyone helps out with the harmony Sven-Erik Seaholm SUBMITTING A CALENDAR LISTING the Best Americana category as were the 7th with the loss of Carter Stanley. The Earl Brothers singing. Their second CD, Toubles to Blame, José Sinatra Email your gig date, including location, address, Day Buskers who appear in the show. have that old time magic but there is something proved that the first edition of their sound was no Allen Singer and time to [email protected] by This year Berkley and Hart plan another out - more that is unique to them. fluke. Although not really brothers, that does not the 23rd of the month prior to publication. D. Dwight Worden standing show. You can expect to experience the To me, it seems difficult to get something new Craig Yerkes matter. Their music harps on drinking and cheat - ©2008 San Diego Troubadour. same great community spirit that prevailed at and fresh from traditional bluegrass instruments. ing in the honky tonk tradition, yet they can take Cover photo: Greg Crowder the first two shows, and you will see and hear The Earls have managed to do that and those in an old time tune like “Cluck Old Hen” and give it Cover design: Chuck Schiele some of the best that San Diego has to offer the music business have had trouble finding the new words to make it into something nobody has including Gregory Page, the 7th Day Buskers, right pigeon hole for this band. The banjo is the ever heard before. I love this band! The San Diego Troubadour is dedicated to the memory of Ellen and Lyle Duplessie , Lisa Sanders and, we are promised, some new signature instrument of bluegrass music but this whose vision inspired the creation of this newspaper. The Earl Brothers will play a San Diego Folk faces as well. band has managed to get around that. These four Heritage concert on Saturday, February 23, at the Look for a fast paced show featuring a vari - guys wear all black outfits when they play, and San Dieguito United Methodist Church, 170 Calle ety of artists performing hits from the movie the title of their first CD Whisky, Women and Magdalena in Encinitas. Check them out at O’Brother Where Art Thou? such as “I Am a Man Death hints at what they might be about. Some www.earlbrothers.com and go to www.sdfolkher - of Constant Sorrow” and the Ralph Stanley clas - have called their sound “Gothic Honky-Grass.” itage.org for directions and details. Local hillbilly sic “O Death,” along with other similar fare and They have an instrumental sound that is more band Tanya Rose and the Buffalo Chip Kickers will original material as well. like mountain music was before the invention of perform a short opening set. electric instruments. Even that does not describe www.sandiegotroubadour.com 3 FEBRUARY 2008 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR full circle A Conversation with Jimmy Webb by Steve Thorn Jools: What’s the song about, really? [the head of the music program] brought me Jimmy Webb : (Laughs) SEARCH ME! into his office and said, “Mr.