by Christine | Nov 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Mark on old time music back in 2013. Merry Christmas, folks. RC) Dear friends,Happy Monday morning. Half the clocks in our house say it’s an hour later, so I’m living in a world of “Hey! I’ve got an extra hour to live my...
by Christine | Sep 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
“Here’s one of the old timers we got picked out here for you today, that I’ve heard ever since I was just a little bitty boy down in the country there …….” This was how Earl Taylor introduced Short Life of Trouble on a recording in 1959, and it is typical of the way...
by Christine | Apr 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Towards the end of the 1950s folk music aficionados were becoming aware of a genre of American music known as ‘old-time’ or ‘old-timey’. It had a mystical aura of purity, free from the contamination of ‘commercial’ music. There was an unfortunate connection with...
by Christine | Apr 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
Towards the end of the 1950s folk music aficionados were becoming aware of a genre of American music known as ‘old-time’ or ‘old-timey’. It had a mystical aura of purity, free from the contamination of ‘commercial’ music. There was an unfortunate connection with...
by Christine | Feb 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Does the above title sound like an oxymoron to you? It does to me. After all old time music is, well, old. It hearkens back to a time before any of us were born. In the hey day of old time music, the term “tech savvy” might have meant that you actually...
