The Sisters

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where we have vowed to complain about the weather no more this winter. Personally, I love cold fronts from Alaska. I love the winter. I love the cold. I love the cold. I love the cold. I love the cold. I just need to keep repeating...

The Sleepy Holler Boys and Excuses

The Dillards, a bluegrass band from the not too distant past, are well known to many people who have followed bluegrass music over the years. That band was the catalyst for many people to get interested in bluegrass music, and for some to become bluegrass musicians at...

The Sleepy Holler Boys and Excuses

(Editor’s Note–We have so very many CBA members caught in the clutches of what is now known to be the deadliest fire in our state’s history.  John Karsemeyer is one of them. Here’s the note he sent us this morning–“No column...

The Sleepy Holler Boys and Excuses

The Dillards, a bluegrass band from the not too distant past, are well known to many people who have followed bluegrass music over the years. That band was the catalyst for many people to get interested in bluegrass music, and for some to become bluegrass musicians at...

The Slippery Pursuit of Excellence

Yesterday, I posted something on Facebook. I posted it quickly – dashed it off, actually, as I was settling into my desk for the workday. The whole post was 29 words. It should have been 28. My buddy Rick Cornish, sharp of eye and even sharper of wit, found the...

The Small Town Guitarber Shop

Remember “The Andy Griffith Show”? Where did he guys all hang out in Mayberry? Floyd’s barber shop! It was the epitome of small town social intercourse. Besides being a place where one could get a shave and a haircut, it was the town’s men hung out when there was...