by Dave Williams | Jun 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
You’d think a big mouthed bass player could change his own strings. Well, it turned out he could…but not without plenty of anxiety and angst. Coming out of the pandemic hibernation, I determined after a few jam sessions that my strings were pretty much mush. In my...
by Bert Daniel | Jun 6, 2021 | Welcome Column
“THE CHRISTIAN LIFE”: SACRED SONGS OF THE LOUVIN BROTHERS. Charlie and Ira Louvin’s music retained the identifying characteristics borrowed from shape-note singing and balladry that set them apart from their peers, and the brothers successfully created a...
by Bruce Campbell | Jun 2, 2021 | Welcome Column
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...
by Maggie Sokolik | May 27, 2021 | Welcome Column
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...
by Bert Daniel | May 26, 2021 | Welcome Column
“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...
by Bert Daniel | May 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
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...
