by Christine | Aug 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Songs, like smells, can be very evocative, bringing back poignant memories or impressions, when you least expect it. Yesterday, I heard the Country Gentlemen’s version of “Bringing Mary Home” by chance on the way home from work. As I was enjoying John Duffey’s amazing...
by Christine | Apr 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
One late night, I think it was at Pete and Laura Hicks festival by the fruit stand outside of Gilroy I was playing a new song I’d written. When I was finished, Larry Kuhn said something to this effect: I don’t know why people write songs. There are thousands of great...
by Christine | May 22, 2018 | Welcome Column
New Country SongIf I could write a country song -say all red, white and blue -you know the stuff – ‘bout love and lossand I been done wrong too,I’d bring my darling up on stageand light her bright gold hair that she had doctored up for mein case I’d call her...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2015 | Welcome Column
Over the years, I have written a fair number of songs. Not hundreds (although I have started hundreds), but dozens. I don’t write songs steadily, but in dribs and drabs. Some have made their way into the repertoires of the bands I play with. One found its way into the...
by Christine | Sep 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Have you ever been on a picnic? You know what I mean, where someone (the picnicker) takes the trouble to spend time making sandwiches or maybe frying chicken, baking cookies, tossing up some good potato salad, chilling a thermos of freshly brewed sweet tea or a bottle...
