The Spring Valley Inn has never been mentioned in the same breath as The Troubadour in Los Angeles or The Marquee in London as a key musical incubator for young bands that went on to earn recording ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Beat Farmers, Tales of the New West (Deluxe Edition). It's probably safe to say that this is the only album in existence to include covers of both the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again" ...

The 14th annual Beat Farmers Hootenanny, with Stevie Salas, Bill Davis, Pete Gordon, Joe Dyke, Ed Croft and Joey Harris & The Mentals Celebration, not gravitas, is what one usually expects to find at ...

A documentary about legendary San Diego-based, roots rock band, THE BEAT FARMERS featuring interviews with members Jerry Raney, Joey Harris, Buddy Blue, Rolle Love, and Country Dick Montana, plus ...

The Beat Farmers’ debut album Tales of the New West was recorded in the summer of 1984 with a bare-bones budget of $4500 — the majority of which was spent on a single-day marathon session at Capitol ...

Live at the Anza Club was recorded over two raucous nights at the East Side venue this past April. Covers during the set included a magnificent reworking of a Roy Loney/Flamin’ Groovies tune “Golden ...