by Christine | Dec 18, 2013 | Welcome Column
Every year about this time, a debate rages anew. At some point, a few years ago, someone suggested to associate this season with a single, non-secular holiday (that would be Christmas) was insensitive to people of other faiths. So, an effort was made to remake the...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2016 | Welcome Column
To each his own at a campout. Musicians gather at many of our campouts in any form in order to play with friends. They arrive in 40 foot motorhomes with every bell and whistle possible. It is good to get to know these attendees in case there is...
by Christine | May 3, 2015 | Welcome Column
Ron Spears just wrote critical piece about “corporate country.” I happen to concur with his point of view that the bottom line of commercial country industry is the bottom line, but hasn’t this always really been the case for decades? Maybe one’s taste and...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Ron Spears just wrote critical piece about “corporate country.” I happen to concur with his point of view that the bottom line of commercial country industry is the bottom line, but hasn’t this always really been the case for decades? Maybe one’s taste and...
by Christine | Oct 2, 2013 | Welcome Column
One of the enduring iconic visuals of classic bluegrass is the band clustered around a single ribbon microphone, usually with some radio station’s call letters attached to it. Despite its acoustic instrumentation, bluegrass has been played through a microphone (or...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good fifth Thursday of the month from Whiskey Creek, where from one day to the next we, the human residents of our little mountain retreat, have no idea what new little surprise wrought by that natural of all process, aging, will be visited upon us next. My own...
