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Young Love: The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’s skills belie their youth.
Listening to songs from The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’s debut CD Pay Me No Mind, certain images come into focus. With numbers like “Penny Waiting on a Change” sung in... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
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Hats On: Blues aficionados, young and older, turn out in droves to see acts like Charlie Musselwhite and Susan Tedeschi
Master-mentor relationships help keep an American music form pure.
No American music has a richer mythology than the blues. There’s the gripping lore surrounding blues music’s first superstar, Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
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Down, But Never Out: Bettye LaVette
Vocalist Bettye LaVette persisted until she got the career breaks she deserved.
After recording what was supposed to be her first album and long-awaited breakthrough in the music industry, vocalist Bettye LaVette got a phone call. The record executive on the other... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
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Vital Force: Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal took his own path to musical success.
Taj Mahal got valuable musical advice from blues elders, including Lightnin’ Hopkins, when he first embarked on his unconventional path as a musician. ... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
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Plucked to Play: Joe Bonamassa
One of the best guitarists in blues started in classical music.
The blues hit young Joe Bonamassa like a lightning bolt. At the time, Bonamassa was reciting classical music pieces verbatim on guitar. But when at 8 years old the guitarist... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
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Greens Machine: A worker for Salinas Valley-based Tanimura & Antle washes organic spinach from Soledad fields headed for Earthbound Farms.
E. coli outbreaks in fresh produce coincide with the push for volume, variety and year-round supplies.
Just after 9 on a frigid January morning in 2007, nearly six months after the disastrous E. coli outbreaks in bagged spinach, some 200 vegetable farmers and shippers, tailed by... read on»
By Paul Roberts posted June 19, 2008 12:00 AM
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Highway 1: The popular scenic view of the Pacific Ocean just north of Big Sur.
Little Trips, Little Towns: South Coast Big Sur
The South Coast town of Gorda has a dubious distinction: ABC’s “Nightline” did a feature this past spring that revealed the community had the highest gas prices in the entire... read on»
By Stuart Thornton posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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Curvy FIgure: William Randolph Hearst originally used the Hacienda as his ranch house getaway.
Little Trips, Little Towns: Fort Hunter Liggett
From time to time, major military exercises at the increasingly active base close off certain roads and currently, the Indians Fire has neccessitated the closure of Del Venturi Road. If... read on»
By Mark C. Anderson posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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Smoke Stacks: The stacks of the power plant in Moss Landing makes for a familiar skyscape.
Little Trips, Little Towns: Moss Landing
The South Coast of Big Sur might have more hawks than humans. Moss Landing has roughly the same population as a small high school class. And soldiers aside, Fort Hunter... read on»
By Jessica Lyons posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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Timber: Cedar Funding’s David Nilsen consults with his lawyer, Shawn Mills, at the Monterey County Courthouse May 22.
As David Nilsen’s investment company unravels, investors wonder if they’ll ever see their money again.
David Nilsen’s face twitches. The owner and broker of Cedar Funding nervously shifts in his leather seat inside Monterey County Superior Judge Marla Anderson’s courtroom. He wears a black suit,... read on»
By Zachary Stahl posted June 05, 2008 12:00 AM
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