A New Year's Resolution for 2023 Wishing all the folkies out there a wonderful 2023. My resolution is to create some new content here. Please stay tuned ..read more

The Alan Acuff comeback tour is underway, and I hope you'll join us for some picking' and grinnin' this Saturday afternoon July 21st, from 1-3 pm at the Three Ravens Coffehouse in Tierra Amarilla, NM. Click HERE for a map to the Three Ravens and right-click HERE to download a flyer provided by Debbie and Vincent, the kind folks who do the web design for the Three Ravens. Please join us for a fun afternoon of music, great coffee, and good food. Bring a chair, bring your kids, and tell your friends ..read more

Yesterday, I spent a musical afternoon and evening at the 14th Annual Albuquerque Folk Festival. This year the festival was held at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum. ABQ Folk Festival 2012 I enjoyed all of the music I heard but I have to admit that my favorite band was a folk trio called Three String Bale. Three String Bale perform at the ABQ Folk Festival This energetic trio of talented multi-instrumentalists really works hard... almost as hard as James Brown himself, and in their own way they are equally soulfull. In short, what I like about these folks is that they are putt ..read more

It was a sad day for Santa Fe's music community when we heard the news about Butch Crouch. Butch was loved by all and will be sorely missed. A memorial gathering will be held at El Farol. We expect to have a date and time very soon and it will be posted here. Please check back for details and come help us celebrate Butch's life and music. Here's a story I'd like to share with you folks. Back when the west was wild, I booked a banquet gig at the Legal Tender in Lamy, New Mexico. The night of the banquet I arrived at the Legal Tender and discovered that the gig was double-booked. (Double-book ..read more

This past Thursday, April 29th, two-time Grammy award winner Ramblin' Jack Elliott performed at Corazon in Santa Fe. This was the first stop on his 2009 spring tour. Jack is touring in support of his recent album, A Stranger Here, which won a Grammy Award in 2009 for the best traditional blues album. Unfortunately, due to the very poor sound provided by the concert promoter, Jack was treated more like a stranger than like the distinguished artist that he is. Somehow the sound man managed to interrupt the show over and over again with howling feedback from the sound system. It was incre ..read more

For those of you who missed this documentary on public television here it is as a streaming video. I hope it will inspire you as much as it has inspired me. (By the way, you can click the full-screen icon at the lower right edge of the video and then sit back and watch it sized to your computer display ..read more

I've been a Molly Tuttle fan since I first saw her on Youtube demoing a Waterloo guitar for her local music store. Yesterday I was pleased to discover that her new album is ready to ship to stores. It was recorded during the pandemic with all of the musicians working in their home studios. The official videos are edgy and timely. Highly recommended. Here are a couple of links to get you started. Great job Molly! Thanks for the tunes ..read more

Hi folks. Just want to say that I'll be back to writing in a bit. In the meantime I'm staying home and staying safe because I'm old (but not as old as the songs I sing). I'm busy building and modding tube amps and telecasters so that I'll have some new sounds to play with in my home studio. I don't care what Pete Seeger says––Fender electric guitars are folk instruments! All y'all stay healthy too. Keep on playing your music and make time listen to some great music. This morning I listened to Leadbelly on red vinyl. What a performer! Been listening to Bob Wills and T-Bone Walker a lot too in ..read more