by Christine | Sep 9, 2007 | Welcome Column
Jimmy Martin’s wedding was a dream come true. For me, I mean. I can’t speak for Jimmy or his lovely young bride Theresa, but I was beside myself with excitement, thrilled just to be invited. Well, not “invited” really, since the wedding was a scheduled on-stage event...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2012 | Welcome Column
(In the key of B-flat-diminished-major-7th, capo 10) Dashing through the trees With a banjo in my hand Through the cool night breeze Yonder towards a jam! Hot mandos and jug bands Guitarists by the tents Dobros by the hot dog stand The music never ends! Jingle bells,...
by Christine | Nov 9, 2007 | Welcome Column
This is the story of Joe the Goat and how he helped me reevaluate the rhythm of my daily life. The story begins this past summer, the very Saturday morning I was to leave for Grass Valley and our 32nd annual Fathers Day Festival. It so happens that one entire wall of...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2008 | Welcome Column
Time goes by so damned fast. It was seven years ago that Lynn and I drove one Sunday afternoon to Mt. Ranch and picked out two tiny Boar Goat kids from about the two dozen that were available. On the drive back we named them—the smaller, darker one we named Ted after...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2003 | Welcome Column
Larry Sparks has always been one of my favorite bluegrass singers, and his “John Deere Tractor” album, one of my most played. For twenty years now, that one particular song, about a lonely dirt farmer unlucky in love with only his tractor to count on, has sent chills...
