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Ruby Blue - Skin
by Ken McKnight
posted 2003-11-15

Ruby Blue is cool stuff. Cool as Miles Davis blowing B flat in the basement as the clouds drift silently overhead above in the street. Cool as two lovers dancing cheek-to-cheek eyes staring into each other’s, alone on a barroom floor without any notice to the other patrons drooling nearby. And when Ruby sings there is not a care in the world…

The Sweet Sound of the Lap Steel Guitar
by Ken McKnight
posted 2003-09-15

It takes a great musician to play the lap steel but it also takes a dedicated artists touch to build these delicate sounding string instruments. One of the bright spots in lap steel construction today would be the models designed and constructed by Estaban Bojorquez. This master craftsman is a Los Angeles area multimedia painter / surfer / sculptor / musician / filmmaker that is no stranger to the art / music world in Southern California…

Steel, Sacred and Profane
by Betty Wheeler
posted 2003-09-15

Michael Witcher is poised for epic surf. His board of choice is a fretboard, whether on a dobro, a Weissenborn-style or Hawaiian guitar, or a Bojorquez lap steel. He can rip out those Rob Ickes licks note for note and tone for tone, but he’s well into his own groove now, and like his dobro heroes Josh Graves, Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, and Rob Ickes, he’s going to take the dobro into some pretty awesome new territory…

Daniel Lanois: Shine Like the Genius You Are
by Joe Brancaleone
posted 2003-07-16

Hunger. Sleep deprivation. Agony of a sore back. It was perfect. On any sane night I would have stayed home, shunning a two hour traffic-congested trek to the inner realms of Hollywood. But this was not a night for thinking sane thoughts and weighing the pros and cons. Obsession has and end to meet without regard for the means. This was hope against hope to perhaps enjoy a live offering from Daniel Lanois…

In the water with Tim Bluhm
by Neptune S. Oldier
posted 2003-07-15

Tim Bluhm slowly extricates his six-foot-four inch frame from his road weary cargo van and faces the 10 knot onshores as he eyes the surf. He pulls tight the hood strings on a thick blue sweatshirt bearing a logo from the Moss Landing Marine Lab and squints into the horizon…

Xavier Rudd: An Australian on the American Road
by Ken McKnight
posted 2003-07-15

I hooted Xavier Rudd into a wave recently at a local Southern California beach break. On tour he had lobbed into San Diego for a show and was eager to be on the coast after a stint in Middle America. A hardcore surfer, this South Australian boy was yearning for a surf when I hooked up with him. His gills were drying up. After watching him make the drop he took the lip right on his head driving him into the sand. Smiling as he broke the water’s surface he said,”At least I went for it.” And so he does…

RC and Me at the Belly Up
by Ken McKnight
posted 2003-05-16

Maria McKee has released her first CD in 7 years. At the beginning of a new tour she brought her incredible music catalog to one of the best beach bars in the world. For an unforgettable night of rocking sounds from a mellow beach community read what happened…

Giving in to the addictive sound of Johnny Marr + The Healers
by Joe Brancaleone
posted 2003-05-16

When an artist faithfully follows the creative instinct, you know it. You can hear it. You can feel it. Johnny Marr does it, and his instincts told him to serve up just a bit of psychedelia on the wire. An oracle of a talking serpent also gave him some suggestions. But we’ll get to that later. First some history…