Jonny Whiteside

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Havana Comes to Hollywood

The Cuban flutist-bandleader Orlando 'Maraca' Valle's arrival at this intimate Hollywood Blvd spot is hardly small potatoes. After all, he just head...
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Babegrass Rules

The Hello Darlin’s, a new venture from banjo pickin' sensation Vicki Hill and the Cheatin Kind's Babs MacDonald, seems poised to usher in another ...
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Carlos Guitarlos

The ferociously talented blues-rocker, best know for his association with 80's-era Hollywood legends Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, is one of this town's ...

Take Him as He Is

Veteran country-music star Little Jimmy Dickens may be best known for his novelty smasheroo "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" and Loretta Lynn's d...
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RIP Ike Turner

It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civic Auditorium). Now dead at age 76, it seems pretty unlikely that the pop revisionists are gonna pull their heads out of their......