by Christine | Apr 11, 2021 | Welcome Column
If you listen to Johnny Gimble play Darling Nellie Gray on the Texas fiddle tune collection you will hear some very beautiful fiddle playing. Bob Wills’s Faded love is evoked by the melody which is a sad song in itself but Nellie Gray played as an instrumental...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2021 | Welcome Column
If you have learned, have been learning, or are just starting to learn to play the fiddle, you know that it is a difficult instrument to conquer. It has to be said that a person really never learns all there is to know on the fiddle, because like all musical...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2021 | Welcome Column
Well, then… Urrmm, now. I´ll begin at the beginnin´. [From The Quiet Man 1952.] I met Bert Daniel in the summer of 1990 when Bert, his first cousin Wilson Cooper and I packed in to my Chevy S-10 pickup which had a bench seat behind the front seats and drove from...
by Christine | Apr 7, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s: One of Bruce’s from the archives) A few years ago, I attended a lecture where the speaker described the effects of the hormones serotonin and dopamine and oxytocin. His subject was actually the modern phenomenon of tech dependency – especially smart...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s a good one from Marcos a while back) Frankly, I can’t really remember not ever listening to bluegrass, though I suppose that technically, mere listening does not necessarily equate to be “hooked.” I’ll never forget the time when in 1962, by dad...
