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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

Guest Blog by Llyn De Danaan The Celtic Colours Festival, named for the adornment of brilliant fall foliage that cloaks the hills on Cape Breton in October, recently finished its 16th year. Its mission, as Joella Foulds, founder and artistic director told us at one evening session, is to “promote,

Reissued two-disc anthology of San Francisco legends Legacy’s two-disc Essential collection is actually a re-branded reissue of the 1998 Hits release, reiterating the same 35-track lineup and including Ben Fong-Torres original liner notes. If you pop these discs in your computer’s CD drive, you’re even likely to

Extraordinary, yet virtually unknown singer-songwriter Americana from 1973 A label as big as Columbia in the early ‘70s was bound to miss a few opportunities, even ones they’d signed, recorded and released. Such was the case for this 1973 rarity, the product of an Indiana singer-songwriter, the famous producer

Singer/songwriter Russ Marsh could have never imagined the impact of his 1976 single, “Walking in the Footsteps of Your Mind,” when it started acquiring spins on Salt Lake City country radio station KSOP. Among its fans was none other than convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing

"Sometimes at night she comes to me in dreams"…..from the song "Wake Up Dead” by Arlo Guthrie During the chill of a New England fall and as the ocean winds  swept across the Florida coastline, with her family gathered around her, JackieGuthrie, 68, quietly left this