by Bman | Dec 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Johnny Otis was born December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California. He grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Berkeley, California, where his father owned and operated a neighborhood grocery store. He began his musical career in 1939 as a drummer with Count Otis...
by Bman | Dec 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
A child prodigy, Roxy started out fronting swing bands at the famous Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York and performed her first major concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California at age 9. In her early teens, she began fronting her own bands....
by Bman | Dec 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ernest Troost is a composer/singer/songwriter and a 2009 Kerrville New Folk winner. His evocative songwriting style combines folk and Piedmont-blues-style guitar picking with timeless stories and colorful character portrayals drawn from the American past and present....
by Bman | Dec 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Jeffrey Halford: A Classic Americana Troubadour "Jeffrey Halford specializes in "swamp rock with soul," which means that Poor House Bistro, the valley's center for New Orleans food...
