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Interview with Glen Duncan

“But it changed my life forever;  then, from that time forward, I was a fiddle player.  It just changed the whole thing.  Changed the whole thing.  I’m a fiddle player today because of that.” Continue reading

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A meeting with Ravi Shankar

From my series on “Musical Meetings” I was staying with Ed Pearl in West LA while my band The Scragg Family was playing the Ash Grove this was in the early 1960s. As I sipped my morning coffee Ed asked … Continue reading

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A visit with Roscoe Holcomb – Kajsa Ohman

I first met Kajsa in late 1962. She had recently descended on the Santa Barbara folk music scene, and charmed everyone with her singing and guitar playing. We quickly became friends and began performing together. I was in the process … Continue reading

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A Lobero Theater Program from 2012

Waking down the brick alleyway from the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara to the parking garage, the last studio one passes on the left has a large window, fronted by wrought iron grill-work. It is a dentist’s office now, but … Continue reading

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Roland White: Mandolin Man

It was in the late 1960s when I heard about a reunion of guitar phemenomenon Clarence White, then with the Byrds and his old group the Kentucky Colonels at the Ash Grove. I’d seen them all there, back in in 1962 and … Continue reading

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