Teenage Jeff Hanna paid $4.50 to see Bob Dylan perform at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California on Dec. 5, 1964. Armed only with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica rack, Dylan, who had only ...

At the height of the California counterculture, while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters were up in La Honda orchestrating acid tests and partying with Hell’s Angels, an inauspicious jug band came ...

Life is good for John McEuen. On April 1, the Bradenton musician’s solo album “Made In Brooklyn” was named Best Americana Album at the Independent Music Awards. His autobiography, “The Life I’ve ...

Just over 50 years ago, John McEuen - a kid from Oakland who fell under the spell of the banjo - joined a group of Californians who were streamlining rock and roots music as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ...

Well, look who’s finally coming back to Long Beach. Fifty years ago, John McEuen was a regular at the now long-defunct McCabe’s Guitar Shop on Anaheim Street, west of Ximeno Avenue. He’d sit in the ...

You have to hand it to John McEuen. As a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, he gets to play several dozen relatively high-profile festival and casino shows a year. The money is decent; the band is ...

John McEuen, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, was born on this very day in 1945.