Click to hear “Songs and Stories” #34 (time = 22:59, size = 26.4 mb) “Dark, Appalachian dance music”. That’s how I’ve always described The Crooked Jades, a bay area-based collective of musicians dedicated to keeping old-tyme string-band music alive and […]

Click to hear “Songs and Stories” #33 (time = 22:59, size = 26.4 mb) This year’s Spring 2008 Strawberry Music Festival will be (ahem) fondly remembered as “the cold, wet, muddy one”. It’s not unheard of to have one day […]

Click to hear “Songs and Stories” #29 (time = 37:55, size = 43.4 mb) “I don’t want to paint with just one color”. That’s how Cillette Swann describes the Americana genre’s ability to let artists mix varied styles on the […]

I’ve found that doing these “interviews” around our kitchen table changes what might be a standard interview into a looser, more chatty…well, visit around a kitchen table. Awhile back I talked to multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Dayan Kai (along with bass player […]

Click to hear “Songs and Stories” #24 (time = 48.9, size = 56.1 mb) On Saturday 2/23, I’ll be at The Acoustic Barn in Newcastle, CA opening for Rick Di Dia and Aireene Espiritu. Rick and Aireene play a mix […]