by Christine | Sep 17, 2012 | Welcome Column
I see it every time I pick up my vintage instrument. After nearly 100 years, this little mandolin has really been around. And it has this one little problem that I just can’t abide. It bugs me. Here I own one of the best sounding instruments I’ve ever...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2007 | Welcome Column
Have you ever wonder how bands get their names? For me, what they call themselves seldom determines whether or not I choose to listen. If I like the music, I don’t tend to think too hard about the band name, which somehow always seems to fit perfectly. So do bands sit...
by Christine | Dec 3, 2014 | Welcome Column
Well, the rains finally came, and that meant I had to learn all over how to include an umbrella into my life. But there was another, more disturbing development – my little Scottish umbrella is getting beat up, and that makes me sad. This Scottish umbrella was...
by Christine | Jun 8, 2013 | Welcome Column
We all know about the food fast (different than fast food). That, of course, is when we go without food for a certain designated period of time. Some folks do it voluntarily, and some folks do it involuntarily because they don’t have the money, and some do it for all...
by Christine | Dec 8, 2011 | Welcome Column
There’s a fellow named Larry Perkins in Nashville who is a longtime picker and knows pretty much everybody in the Bluegrass world back there. I met him briefly about ten years ago at an IBMA week in Louisville and bought a CD he had for sale called Glad Reunion Day....
by Christine | Mar 12, 2014 | Welcome Column
One of the most ubiquitous accoutrements to bluegrass players is…. the capo. (Sometimes called a “cheater bar”.) A cursory search of the internet shows the capo to be much older that you might think (17th century!). Apparently, the word itself comes from the Italian...
