Click here to listen to the interview with Sherry Austin (time = 31:02) Sherry Austin spent time in Hawaii doing covers in the “steak and winehouse” scene, but it wasn’t until she moved back to her native California, settled in […]
Songs and Stories #40 and #41: Santa Cruz’s Mary McCaslin
She’s been called “an unbroken link between traditional American folksingers and today’s ‘new folk’ singer-songwriters.” This two-part “Songs and Stories” is a visit with local songwriter Mary McCaslin. In part one, Mary talks about her folk and western influences, her […]
Songs and Stories #39: Songwriter Vienna Teng (or “When to Leave the Day Job”)
Click to hear “Songs and Stories” #39 (time = 30:56, size = 35.4 mb) A question many artists often ask themselves is “When do I leave my day job?” (Not that I have *ever* thought that. No, never. Ever. Well…maybe […]
Songs and Stories #37 and #38: Chuck McCabe – A Creature of Habit
Bay area staple Chuck McCabe is one of those “songwriter’s songwriter” type of folks. (In other words, he’s a real craftsman, and he makes it look really easy.) Chuck is known for writing funny songs that seem to come off […]
Songs and Stories #35 and #36: Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd
“There’s a million ways to live a life” is how local singer/songwriter describes that path she’s taken. A California native raised in the San Fernando valley, she moved north to pursue an Environmental Studies degree at UC Santa Cruz while […]
Songs and Stories #34: Jeff Kazor of The Crooked Jades
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 […]
Songs and Stories #33: Spring Strawberry 2008 Breakfast Club
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 […]
“Songs and Stories” Interview highlight: Stevie Coyle
Shortly before fingerstyle guitarist Stevie Coyle left The Waybacks last year, he and I sat down for a chat in the green room at Don Quioxte’s Music Hall in Ben Lomand. Note: The “green room” is the dining room nearest […]