Ten Items or Less–I Had a Dream

Today’s column from Brooks Judd Friday, October 1, 2010 I had a dream the other night and in my dream I was writing the annual April 1 Welcome Column for the CBA and all the items, though they were “April Fool” worthy, were actually true. Here goes. Item 1: CBA...

Ten Items or Less–Signs

Item 1: On our front door hangs a neatly written sign that reads: “If you are a friend, neighbor, or relative, please knock or ring. If none of the above, please go away.”*** (Girl Scouts selling cookies and students selling chocolate bars for their schools of course...

Ten Items or More (A Nod to Brooks Judd)

1 – “Hoard your energy” (Bob Dylan). Yes, I agree. Save it for all things bluegrass (festivals, jams, events, thoughts). 2 – The future is unknown, but the past is certain. Learn from your mistakes; Like not attending that bluegrass festival you missed last year, and...

Ten or so items

Thought for 2017 from Geoffrey Latham: “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.” “Bluegrass music. Ordinary people making extraordinary music.” Plato.For our CBA friends in Germany… Guter anfang ist halbe arbeit! So let us begin.Started out 2017 on New Years...

Ten Reasons fo Loving IBMA

Where on any give day you’ll find ample quantities of the good, the bad and the ugly. Certainly enough to keep you going until tomorrow morning, when it all starts over again. Rain welcomed me home to Whiskey Creek last evening, but nothing but blue skies this...