by Christine | Nov 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note…After posting other people’s Welcome columns for twelve or thirteen years now, I find myself attempting to hone in on the raison d’être of our various writers. Why do they do it? Is there some theme that they return...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2008 | Welcome Column
Finally, it’s starting to get cold in the mornings. We still haven’t had any moisture, but we are getting the lower temperatures. Good, I’m glad it’s cold. It’s about time. I say that now because it’s only been cold for a short period of time. I’m willing to bet you...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2007 | Welcome Column
I know of one talented washtub bass player that when attending festivals, would sneak up on a group that didn’t have a bass, hide behind a car so as not to break up the jam, and play until they would notice and start asking. “Who’s playing the...
by Christine | Dec 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
We were playing and singing “I’ll Fly Away” at a Christmas gathering when the text came into my cell that Warren Hellman had passed away. As we finished the song, I told everyone that I had just received some terrible news and there was silence in the room after I...
by Christine | Nov 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
There can be times when as a musician you get tired of the stuff you are playing, and you may echo the cry of Iggy Pop in 1979, and a decade earlier by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, “I’m bored!” What to do if you need inspiration to progress with your music? I typed...
by Christine | Sep 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, just a few square feet under six acres that is more demanding than a young bride born with a silver spoon in her mouth, six acres populated by one house, one barn, one feed shed and one wood shed that all have roofs just aching to leak...
