Janis & Jimi

Last October, toward the end of the month, I made one of several trips to Ukiah from Clearlake, where I was living at the time. Several of the local Ukiah businesses had Halloween window displays, but the one that really caught my eye was the one at Dig! Music on State Street, which featured a graveyard, with headstones displaying the names of prominent musicians of the “past,” who had “passed” on far before their time. I couldn’t help but commend the proprietors on this sincere tribute to the late, great musical artists of the past who have contributed so much to the roots of modern music, as well as making their own indelible marks on the social and political evolution of our American culture over almost the past five decades.