More adventures of my buddy Ray Park

I have two large portrait size photographs of two of my best friends Vern Williams and Ray Park, hanging in my living room. I look at them every morning noon and night. I love looking at these portrait size photographs that my good friend Tom Tworek took of them the...

More memories of Rose

Last month I told you folks about the night my lips got polio fromdrinking too much Guinness Stout when the Vern Williams band wasplaying a gig with Rose Maddox at Raspberries nightclub in AngelsCamp California. For the last couple of days I have been dredging...

More Post Festival Reports

I have to admit that, at least in my role as our web team leader, this is my favorite time of year. Traffic on cbaontheweb.org has been way up since June 21st, the last day of our Fathers Day Festival. While this has been pretty much the case immediately after each...

More Therapy

This is a second set of papers I came across while rifling through my therapist’s files while she was out of the room. It summarizes some of the methods therapists can use to help bluegrass pickers make a clean break and get their lives back, if they want them....

Mother Maybelle

Today is Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Today also happens to be the birthday of Maybelle Carter. “Mother Maybelle”, as she was called even in her forties, was born on May 10, 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia. She was certainly a mother...