by Christine | Jun 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
Among the gifts Santa brought this year was a fascinating book, “Satan Is Real, the Ballad of the Louvin Brothers” by Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer. Charlie and his brother, Ira, were the Louvin Brothers, a stage name shortened from their real family name of...
by Christine | Jun 1, 2020 | Welcome Column
I was trying to come up with a topic to write about yesterday when I opened my morning paper (yes, we still get a morning paper — three, in fact) and there was a story on the local section front about Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records.You hear the words...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
“Daily grist; political correctness is pure cyanide to common sense.”–UnknownI first met Lance LeRoy on Labor Day weekend of 1983 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Back then the California bluegrass Association put on two...
by Christine | Dec 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
It seems to be the nature of humans to take ideas, core beliefs, and basic philosophies and condense their essence down to mottos and sayings, abbreviations and acronyms. The athlete says, “No pain without gain,” and the die-hard Bluegrass traditionalists say, “If it...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2019 | Welcome Column
A while back, trying to be funny, I coined the phrase “three basses is one too many” to describe my collection of upright basses and in particular, too many, from my wife Linda’s point of view. All were out and scattered through a couple of rooms in our house. I would...
by Christine | Mar 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
First, let me stipulate, I’ve been sick. I know, having a cold doesn’t sound like it’s that big of a deal, but this has been a HUGE cold. Rumbling deep in my chest, sinuses impacted like wisdom teeth, arsenic-like achiness. This has been my seventh day and finally I’m...
