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A local band's tribute to a reggae icon

The spirit of Bob Marley Day was out in full force Saturday as San Luis Obispo County-based reggae band Resination paid homage to the great reggae artist with its own versions of Marley’s classic reggae jams.

Resination, accompanied by fellow reggae artists The Kicks, and openers Ras Danny and the Reggae Allstars, revisited many of Marley’s more well-known jams while flavoring its own spin to make the music unique.

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Woe is the San Francisco 49ers fan

When rebutting the assertions of John Middlekauff after he wrote the Chargers have no class, et cetera, the last thing I intended to do was engage in a war of words over something that’s largely opinion-based, such as preference of sports teams.

I simply wanted to serve as a mouthpiece for so many who aren’t fortunate enough to be able to refute such claims in the fashion that I am able to.

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Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band is Big Damn-Tastic!

A guitar, a washboard, a small two-piece guitar kit with a five-gallon bucket, and the occasional harmonica – these are the instruments used by Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band to produce their grassroots and wholly unique throwback sound.

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, ironically consisting of only three people, defines itself as prewar, rural country blues – the kind of blues that is more about rawness than anything else.