Resonance

I’ll just say it up front: I’m some kind of idiot. One of he reasons I didn’t run for the Board of Directors this year was that I was trying to clear some calendar space to play more music (this reason I became involved with the CBA in the first place). Most absurdly,...

Respect

The election’s over. Not just the CBA board elections (though that was a nail biter). The right people won that one. But the BIG one….whether the right one or the wrong one won depends, I guess, on which side of the aisle you stand on. Now when it comes to politics...

Respect and Performance Attire

Respect and Performance Attire Today’s column from Ted Lehmann Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (Editor’s note: Ted is a blogger back in New Hampshire and he’s give us permission to use a piece he wrote this past Saturday on bluegrass band attire. Yes, you heard us...

Respect and Performance Attire

(Editor’s Note: Re-posting one of Ted’s from a decade ago. Still resonates. RC)There’s been a good deal of discussion during the past week on Bluegrass-L (the bluegrass mailing list for IBMA members and some others) about the dress of bluegrass bands and...

Retirement

I’m thinking about retirement tonight. Been thinking about it a lot lately. Thinking about how nice it would be to get up in the morning and not have to waste a thought on anything having to do with whatever I’ve had to waste my thoughts on for the last thirty or so...