Some Songs

(I’ve been locked in the woodshed with three band mates for the last two weeks working on some fresh material for our world tour this summer, This resulted in me missing my deadline this month, so I dug this column out of the archives. I hope I’m not in too much...

Some Songs

It’s very similar to the classic argument; is Doc Watson a bluegrass player? There are some great songs from traditional southern, folk, Appalachia and Americana sources, but my question is; are they bluegrass or more importantly for me can they be played by a...

Some Step Off, And Others Come on Board

The CBA Message Board seems weighed down this week by the news of the passing on of some folks we had grown awfully fond of over the years. Our hearts go out to the surviving family members, and we feel like our numbers are increasingly depleted. As always, these...

Some things you just can’t forget

Five days a week I begin my morning with breakfast and Jon Carroll’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Carroll always has something interesting to say; sometimes he’s really funny, sometimes political, sometimes touching and profound. This past Tuesday he wrote a...

Some very expensive serial numbers

April 26 of 2017 was a very long and tiring day for me. It was one of those days when the clouds sat right down on the top of my mountain that the Lord has blessed me with to spend the final years of my life upon. It was one of those cold, light misting rainy days...