Freelance contributor Jim Washburn has written for a living for over four decades, with articles published in the L.A. Times, the Orange County Register, MSNBC.com, the OC Weekly, University of California Irvine’s quarterly magazine and other print and online sources. He has authored several books and curated museum exhibits on subjects ranging from Southern California’s pop culture to two centuries of the guitar’s history in America, to how Alpine yodeling, Hawaiians and a striptease clothier influenced country music.
