by Christine | May 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
What is it about hats and musicians? It just don’t seem right to play music with an undressed head. Mark Evans recently asked why so many bluegrass bands wear cowboy hats with the one side pressed upward. Cowboys don’t wear their hats that way, because the...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I know. Bill Monroe wore a Stetson hat looking something like a cowboy hat as did Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The Johnson Mountain Boys all wore cowboy hats. They’re traditional apparel for bluegrass bands. Of course, Monroe wore jodhpurs, too, in...
by Christine | Dec 21, 2011 | Welcome Column
I received a lot of wonderful responses when I wrote about having to put my dog down about a year ago. I was thoroughly shaken by how tightly that dumb dawg wrapped herself around my heart, and shocked at the depth of my grief. Lots of folks helpfully suggested I...
by Christine | Jun 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
I know. Bill Monroe wore a Stetson hat looking something like a cowboy hat as did Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The Johnson Mountain Boys all wore cowboy hats. They’re traditional apparel for bluegrass bands. Of course, Monroe wore jodhpurs, too, in...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
There’s this guy I work with. I never much liked him. Sort of a buttoned down fellow…an analyticals’ analytical. Everything in it’s place. A business man always taking care of business. And me, well I’m kind of a child of the 70’s. Sort of free flowing,...
