by Christine | Mar 4, 2021 | Welcome Column
What am I really doing these days? Most of you know I had specific definitions for rehearsing, practicing and my old standby woodshedding. After a year of not playing with people not on the other side of a computer screen, I’ve discarded or thrown out, if you will,...
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...
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 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 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 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...
