by Christine | Mar 11, 2021 | Welcome Column
The daily grist: Where oh where is pretty little Susie? Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch (traditional) Spring has sprung! And there is no greater delight than watching the trees bloom each spring. Like many others during the COVID era I have been riding my bicycle...
by Christine | Mar 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: as Bruce would say a blast from the past and particularly appropriate with the imminent return of baseball) Bluegrass and baseball are inextricably linked. It’s a fact. Bill Monroe’s band used to challenge the local baseball teams in the towns they...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: an old favorite from Rick) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”– George Santayana, philosopher, essayist poet and novelist. I wasn’t in a rush, not daydreaming particularly, no pressing or urgent problem taken control...
by Christine | Mar 8, 2021 | Welcome Column
After getting signed by Ricky Skaggs and touring with Mumford and Sons, it seemed like Cadillac sky had options inside and outside of bluegrass. Cadillac Sky’s albums fit in a similar precarious position. For every psychedelic instrumental arrangement or use of rock...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: Here’s a classic from Marcos) Writing a column is a funny thing. Some months, a plethora of topics flow like artesian wells in Calistoga. Other months, pounding sand comes easier than a novel idea. There was a two month stretch when Bert me to the...
by Christine | Mar 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
“People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.” Sung by Barbra Streisand. “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock “ T.S. Eliot. It is tough mentally battling these two...
