Deadlines

Have you ever noticed that more gets done with a deadline? Of course – you may be that super motivated individual that most of us envy. The one who gets the entire to do list completed, no matter how mundane the activity. In that case, today’s column will be entirely...

Dear Folks

Dear Folks: Well, here it is December of ’10, and we are about to embark on a NEW decade! Who’d a thunk we’d all be here, way back in June of “76 when we didn’t know we couldn’t put on a Bluegrass festival, so we did it anyway!...

Dear Friends

Back in the days when opossums wore sandals because the Earth had not as yet cooled, I was my son Marty’s age. He’s just started his senior year in high school. He’s certainly a lot more grounded and focused than I was at that age, I’m proud to say. I was a troubled...

Dear Old Dixie

I had only recently started listening and playing bluegrass music when I headed off to college in Mississippi. That’s right – native San Franciscan, Ole Miss, class of 1981. It was quite an adventure all the way around and a big part of it was falling in with the...

Dear Old Dixie

I had only recently started listening and playing bluegrass music when I headed off to college in Mississippi. That’s right – native San Franciscan, Ole Miss, class of 1981. It was quite an adventure all the way around and a big part of it was falling in with the...

Dear Readers

Thanks to Rick Cornish and to the California Bluegrass Association for giving me this opportunity via the Welcome Column to thank everyone who has shown support to my family with this week’s Freight and Salvage concert on Friday, September 2nd. As we get older (and,...