People Get  Ready

People Get Ready

Now that things are opening up to a point where folks can get together and play music, and even play gigs, it feels nice to get back into the joyous work of music. Like most folks, I enjoy wide-open “anything goes” jams where solos and harmonies parts are doled out by...
Memorial Day

Memorial Day

Usually, at this time of year, we’d be on our way to the Strawberry Music Festival, or thinking ahead to Father’s Day Festival. Of course, those aren’t happening, but life definitely feels like it’s making its slow return after an absence. One thing that is changing...
Theory of Relativity

Theory of Relativity

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” ― Albert Einstein. Time is indeed relative as my pal pointed out.  Folks of a certain age become aware that time...
Louvin Brothers, part 2

Louvin Brothers, part 2

In the 2012 biography Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, famed singer- songwriter Kris Kristofferson states “the legendary Louvin Brothers’ hauntingly beautiful Appalachian blood harmony is truly one of the treasures of American music”. In order to gain...
Jan Vincent – Bluegrass Webmaster and Historian

Jan Vincent – Bluegrass Webmaster and Historian

There wouldn’t be bluegrass without someone to play it, but there also wouldn’t be bluegrass without fans to hear it. Jan Vincent is a bluegrass fan who has made a difference. Her Jan’s World website (https://jansworld.net/) has collected and preserved the...