by Christine | May 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
A few of you out there may know that I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan. While spending a nice Saturday afternoon watching the ball game, I feel an eerily familiar voice during the commercials: It’s Andy Falco. Along with the phenomenon of my two great joys in life...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Last month Marty Varner stepped in to help with my monthly welcome column, delivering his unique perspective on the challenging new album by the Punch Brothers. Since then the young man has got his grubby mitts on the latest release from one of the other...
by Christine | Jan 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
Fer SOME infernal reason, I have ALWAYS had this built in sub consious ALARM clock! When I go to bed, NO matter what time of the evening or early morning,I can tell meself to wake up at a certain time, and durned if’n I dont wake up about 2 to 3 minues BEFORE I...
by Christine | May 10, 2019 | Welcome Column
(A revisit from the master of random thought.)Fer SOME infernal reason, I have ALWAYS had this built in sub consious ALARM clock! When I go to bed, NO matter what time of the evening or early morning,I can tell meself to wake up at a certain time, and durned...
by Christine | Aug 27, 2014 | Welcome Column
It has been an honor and a privilege to be a contributing and regular Welcome Columnist for the CBA website for – um, quite a few years now. As much as I’ve enjoyed writing the weekly Wednesday column, I have also enjoyed the other Welcome columns as well. I...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2011 | Welcome Column
There’s a thin line between inspiration and frustration for bluegrass pickers. I’ve been to performances that get me all fired up and eager to get home to pick my mandolin. Then there are times where I sit in stunned disbelief and ask myself, “Why do I even bother?” I...
by Christine | Mar 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
On Amber Cross’s C.D. My Kind of church, she spoke of an affliction common to bluegrassers, and musicians of many forms. She called it instrument acquisition disorder, that disease which ravishes the living rooms and closets of many otherwise sensible and upright...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2016 | Welcome Column
If you play music, you’re probably caught in the thrall of musical instruments. It’s an insidious thing and it sneaks up on you, and no one ever warns you. You take up playing music, for whatever reason. Maybe you just wanted to carry a tune, impress the girls, or...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2008 | Welcome Column
When it comes to instrument tuning, musicians often use a tuner to tune each string with precision. And sometimes they use a method called ?relative tuning?. Let?s use the guitar as an example. As long as you can get one string in tune, you can tune the remainder of...
by Christine | Mar 19, 2011 | Welcome Column
Instruments aren’t living beings. Or so my mother tells me. It’s a hard concept for me to grasp. I feel guilty when I ignore my animals – after all they are living things that perceive change of routine and most domestics are bred to seek interaction with humans. Thus...
