by Christine | Mar 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note—Here’s what was on Cliff’s mind in ther fall of 2009.) I was fourteen in Kansas City Missouri, living in a three story stone house off of Van Brunt and St. John, and I’d just bought my harmony arched topped guitar from a pawnshop downtown. Our house was...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2009 | Welcome Column
I was fourteen in Kansas City Missouri, living in a three story stone house off of Van Brunt and St. John, and I’d just bought my harmony arched topped guitar from a pawnshop downtown. Our house was bigger than we needed, and we didn’t have much money, so my dad...
by Christine | Apr 22, 2007 | Welcome Column
A Guest Column from Elena Corey Some time ago I got enthused about letting Andy Griffith know that bluegrass, country and traditional-music folks appreciate him. We owe him a hefty debt for building plots into his television series around our music. The least I could...
by Christine | Mar 1, 2008 | Welcome Column
Utah Phillips Dear friends, Happy Saturday! I traded the traveling Rick Cornish today for my usual Monday Welcome. Looks like a beautiful spring like day, so I’d better hustle with my literary duties and get out there and enjoy it. Today I looked in my email inbox and...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s Valentine’s Day, what shall we play? Probably not the only bluegrass tune I know of that actually has the word valentine in the lyrics:You can send me pretty flowers, you can sen me valentinesSend me letters every day but it won’t payLeap to my desire, nothing...
