by Christine | May 25, 2010 | Welcome Column
In a few weeks I’ll be packing up the old Argosy, hitching it up to the not quite as old F-15 and heading north to Grass Valley. I’ve been doing this since 1976 and you’d think I would have eventually gotten over the thrill of it. But I haven’t. By the time I start up...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2017 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where summer has loosed itself with one final push from a winter cocoon the likes of which this old man has never before experienced. A week from tomorrow I will drive to Grass Valley, California, for my 41st Fathers Day...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and...
by Christine | Jul 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
Many of us have been in jams that just “sort of happened;” they weren’t planned in advance. You know the routine, you are at a camp-out or festival and you take a quiet moment to practice on your instrument of choice, another musician walks up and starts picking with...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2010 | Welcome Column
We all have our drug of choice. Mine is music. We all have our bad habits. Those things that tear us down, complicate our lives. Things that war against our best interests. Some folks drink too much (been there). Ingest too many chemicals (been there). Gamble away...
by Christine | Aug 12, 2011 | Welcome Column
As many of you know, Doyle Lawson has been experimenting with the use of drums lately. You may also know that I’m a big tent sort of guy and like to stretch the boundaries of the music I play. However, I’m not a big fan of drums. Now I don’t mind if somebody slips an...
