by Christine | Jan 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
I got a brand new FM/AM console radio for Christmas. That may not sound very exciting to you but for me it was life changing. You see the year was 1969 and if I tuned my dial to 89 FM after 10 o’clock I might hear something like this:(Innocent voice): “I wonder what’s...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2020 | Welcome Column
Act One Scene One Recap: enter stage right a confident, maybe arrogant individual, in business attire, wearing a Stetson, polished boots, gently strumming a mandolin. He looks out on the audience and says in a strident voice “fake instruments should be banned; dobros...
by Christine | Jan 17, 2020 | Welcome Column
This welcome column is a bit different from most. It is actually an article written for the Bluegrass Breakdown in 1983, written by Steve Pottier. I’ve been going through a lot of the old Breakdowns and finding some gems to digitize, and this is certainly one....
by Christine | Jan 16, 2020 | Welcome Column
During the busy run-up to Christmas I became aware that BBC television was putting out a total of eight one-hour programs culled and edited from the Ken Burns ‘County Music’ series, of which I guess you have seen the full version in the States. Saving the programs on...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have written columns previously about all the things that go wrong at a gig. It was fun and cathartic to recall all the weird things that have happened in decades of playing live gigs in a bewildering variety of venues. Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong,...
