Terry Roland

"You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way."    Ray Manzarek In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years

Last June, with what felt like a last breath of grief, my brother, sister-in-law and I drove down the Abilene Highway that runs between Dallas and Abilene, Texas. With the hot summer wind on our backs, we rolled toward a small town, Winters, where my mother’s casket waited for

“There were other lonely singers In a world turned deaf and blind Who were crucified for what they tried to show And their words can be found scattered Through the swirling winds of time Cause the truth remains no one wants to know.” From Kris Kristofferson’s “To Beat the

Some losses in the culture of music are immeasurable simply by the silence that falls in the aftermath of their absence. For Richard Manuel, who lost his struggle with addiction and depression on March 4, 1986, the silence was all too real and too loud. All five members of The

About halfway through this interview with veteran singer-songwriter John Gorka, a clear image started to emerge. For centuries holiness has been kept behind the walls of monasteries where the monks’ primary vocation is to hold the world outside in prayer through direct communication with the divine. There’s a sense,

During the 60’s Southern California’s Manhattan Beach was not known for its country music. But, along with the surf culture that formed in earnest in the 50's, music was as constant a pre-occupation as baseball or football was to the youth of other towns. Early in