Why the I?

Today’s column from Rick Cornish (rcornish@sjcoe.net) Saturday May 19, 2007 When cbaontheweb.org was launched in October of 2001 the Welcome column contained no “I’s”. In fact, it didn’t contain much, and the only thing that changed from day to day in the...

WHY THERE’S A BLUEGRASS CLUB IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Back when the earth’s crust was cooling (the late ‘70s), I was part of Vancouver Co-op Radio’s first country music show. We’d already established programming based on local music, blues, jazz, and folk, so a mix of bluegrass, old time, classic country, swing,...

Why We Like What we Like

In a recent commentary in the New Yorker, Adam Gropnik wrote about what he called the “Forty Year Itch.” Reflecting on the popular TV series “Mad Men,” he enunciates the Golden Forty-Year Rule: “The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to...

Will 2017 Be Better Than 2018?

Hey, what do you know – it’s a new year, again! More than I can remember, the general feeling I get is that 2017 was not a good year. As I think back on the years of my life (this was my 60th new year), I can’t easily ascribe good, or bad to any of them, though....

Will Bluegrass Music Survive Until 2084?

The Daily Grist:“For the times, they are a changing” Bob DylanLike almost all of you out there reading this today, I love bluegrass music and I feel blessed to have been exposed to it. And I like to share this great music with others who may not have been as fortunate...

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

That is the title of a familiar song that was written back in 1907, by a man and a woman as a gospel song, and later made popular by the famous Carter family of Virginia, known as the first family of country and bluegrass music. I would be willing to bet that most...