Those were two of the catch-phrases of the late San Diego music legend Country Dick Montana, whose spirit will at least partly infuse Saturday’s Fourth Annual Beat Farmers Hootenanny at the Belly Up.

EL CAJON, Calif. — We're celebrating the Grammy Awards with some of San Diego's most memorable musicians. In this Zevely Zone, I caught up Jerry Raney from The Beat Farmers as he and his bandmates ...

Country Dick Montana sadly never achieved the international acclaim of fellow former San Diegans Tom Waits and Frank Zappa. But neither Waits nor Zappa galvanized the music scene here like Montana and ...

When LOM returned to Houston from India in 1987, former Chronicle music critic Marty Racine became near-religious reading for me. I couldn’t wait for his Thursday “Critic’s Picks” column so I could ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. The 35th annual Adams Avenue Street Fair is scheduled Saturday and Sunday, with more than 90 musical acts on ...

While other bands that yearn to be successful are doing anything and everything their record companies tell them, The Beat Farmers seem to go more and more in the opposite direction. The quartet of ...

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The Band to Play First Show Ever in Ojai December 14 San Diego Americana legends, The Beat Farmers, will be hitting the road and heading up north in December to play four dates that will end with a ...