by Bruce Campbell | Sep 29, 2021 | Welcome Column
Music fans who grew up on radio grew accustomed to a radio format for delivery of popular music. Up to the 1960’s, it was extremely rare for any song to last any longer than 3 minutes and closer to 2 was preferred. It was good for business – let radio get more songs...
by Maggie Sokolik | Sep 23, 2021 | Welcome Column, Interview
You can read the first half of this interview in last month’s column. On August 17, in spite of a few technical difficulties, I managed to catch up with AJ Lee and Blue Summit, who were touring the East Coast. Zooming from my Airbnb in Eugene, Oregon to their hotel...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 16, 2021 | Welcome Column
In recent years my musical horizons have broadened. At first I put this down to simple nostalgia. Now well into my seventies, I have certainly found myself remembering how –much earlier in my life – I first discovered bluegrass, old time, jazz and blues music. The...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 14, 2021 | Welcome Column
Banjo players tend to get kidded a lot and jokes about them abound. In the interest of equal time, perhaps it’s time for some other instruments to have some good natured fun poked at them. Here’s a sampling of jokes about those oversize fiddle players we all treasure:...
by Bruce Campbell | Sep 22, 2021 | Welcome Column
You’ve seen it a million times at live shows – at some point, someone in the band says “We have a special guest joining us for a few songs” and out comes someone you didn’t expect who gets handed a guitar and plays with the featured band for a time. Sometimes, it’s...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Here’s what I wrote ten years ago about what happenened in 2001: December 7th. September 11. In our country we remember these two dates as shocking moments of disaster caused by some of our fellow human beings. Human beings who calculated destruction for those of...
