You want blues bona fides? Roy Rogers was the right-hand man to John Lee Hooker. He’s played extensively with fellow slide guitar ace Bonnie Raitt. His Delta Rhythm Kings band has been a going concern for over four decades. He could have ridden off on Trigger into the sunset already (oh, wrong Roy Rogers). He has not. Rogers has released his first new album in a decade, The Sky’s The Limit, a strong collection of songs he has been collecting for over five years…

The lights went out in the middle of the show, and nobody panicked. That’s the part Roy Rogers still can’t quite believe, all these years later — one of many stories he shared in an exclusive interview with the Journal of the San Juan Islands ahead of his upcoming return to the San Juan Community Theatre…

In her new cookbook and memoir, “Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking from a Wayward Southern Belle,” Gaynell Rogers writes about a dinner she once hosted at her hillside Novato home for Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal and Charlie Musselwhite.

Everyone gathered in the dining room — painted in warm Tuscan colors inspired by her trips to cooking schools in Italy — for a meal of seafood gumbo, buttermilk cornbread, orange almond salad and cheesecake….