Crippling Doubt – and How to Relieve It

Lately, there’s been a meme appearing on Facebook that shows a pie chart illustrating a typical musician’s day. About 20% of the day is spent practicing, and there are tiny slivers of the pie for thinking about practice, fearing child prodigies and sleep, but the rest...

Critical Mass

I was getting my truck serviced yesterday and a bluegrass friend of mine was standing in the check-in line while I was paying my bill. It’s kind of funny that occasionally when I see friends out-of-context, I sometimes don’t recognize them and have to ask…is it you?...

Crookedness

My astrological sign happens to be Cancer. And as everybody knows, you can’t teach a crab to walk straight . All my life I’ve been intrigued by things that are a little bit warped and it’s no different when it comes to my music. There are just certain tunes which...

Crossing Lines

THE DAILY GRIST…“It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of Thanksgiving.” – W.T. PurkiserWhile watching NetFlix recently Mike & I came across a new show (to us at least) called Crossing Lines.  It features a network...

Crossing Over

There is a conspiracy afoot. It being Thursday, you might think TBT but it is more TBM (throw back March). Like Bruce’s column yesterday, this is column generated some pretty good feedback when first published. I’ve reached back for one of my first 1st Thursday...