by Bert Daniel | Aug 9, 2023 | Welcome Column
A couple of months ago, bluegrass music lost another two of its founders. On June 23, Jesse McReynolds at the age of 93 joined his brother Jim, who had passed away from thyroid cancer at age 75. Together Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys helped create bluegrass...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 30, 2023 | Welcome Column
Free is good but in some cases you get what you pay for. As an aspirant to many instruments which I still can’t play well enough to my liking, I appreciate every opportunity to sit down with an expert and work one on one with everything that might make me a better...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 27, 2023 | Welcome Column
You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor The first taste’s slow and the second one’s quicker Thought we’d clash, but we hardly ever bicker You and me baby, we’re ice cream and liquor (The Reckless Electric) I like ice cream a lot. It...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 24, 2023 | Welcome Column
I enjoy cooking a lot a lot. Which is to say I enjoy cooking lots of food for lots of people. I’m told I do pretty well cooking for large groups, but that’s not always been the case. Mid way into adulthood, I’d never cooked at all. I was a wood worker and loved...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 17, 2023 | Welcome Column
There’s nothing like a good road trip. The open road of our beautiful America is something everybody should experience. In my youth I went on several epic road trips and the bug has never really left me. Now that I’m mostly retired, the open road is available more...
