by Christine | Mar 10, 2013 | Welcome Column
I have a rather large collection of bluegrass CDs that I’ve accumulated over the years. Many of them are pretty old now. Periodically, I dig out a new old favorite to carry along in my car so I can get reacquainted with it. It’s even easier to scroll...
by Christine | Aug 13, 2017 | Welcome Column
There are few characters more revered in popular music than the African-American folk hero, John Henry. Bluegrass fans all remember the “standard ballad” as sung by Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys:When John Henry was a little babyNo bigger than the palm of your...
by Christine | Aug 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Songs, like smells, can be very evocative, bringing back poignant memories or impressions, when you least expect it. Yesterday, I heard the Country Gentlemen’s version of “Bringing Mary Home” by chance on the way home from work. As I was enjoying John Duffey’s amazing...
by Christine | Apr 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
One late night, I think it was at Pete and Laura Hicks festival by the fruit stand outside of Gilroy I was playing a new song I’d written. When I was finished, Larry Kuhn said something to this effect: I don’t know why people write songs. There are thousands of great...
by Christine | May 22, 2018 | Welcome Column
New Country SongIf I could write a country song -say all red, white and blue -you know the stuff – ‘bout love and lossand I been done wrong too,I’d bring my darling up on stageand light her bright gold hair that she had doctored up for mein case I’d call her...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2015 | Welcome Column
Over the years, I have written a fair number of songs. Not hundreds (although I have started hundreds), but dozens. I don’t write songs steadily, but in dribs and drabs. Some have made their way into the repertoires of the bands I play with. One found its way into the...
