by Christine | Mar 17, 2009 | Welcome Column
We all want to be liked. It’s in our human make up, in our genes. And I think if you had to identify a category of people by whom we’d all like to be liked, it would have to be in-laws. And more importantly, mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law. And for we men, MOST...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
Made it, I’m done until next year! Only had to play those dang christmas songs four or five times this year. I had 4 gigs in December before Christmas, all with different players. These aren’t bands just groups of musicians playing “casuals”, as my...
by Christine | Oct 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
“Run to the rock and hide your face; The rock cried out “No hiding place!” One of the few advantages I’ve found to living in the country is that I can step outside my door in the morning, before I’ve had a chance to comb my hair and put on my face, with no...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
GRANDMA IN FLORENCEOne day my son asked if he had dreamedthe Italian portrait of his great-grandmotherpeeling from the wall of the small museum that Florentine Summer of his sixth yearwhen we sped through Italy in hot July,five in our family in a Volkswagen car.It was...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
As you all know today is a very special day, November 11, Veteran’s Day. But today is much more than that. It is the one hundredth anniversary of the event that caused us to assign this day on the calendar as a remembrance of our soldiers who risked and gave their...
by Christine | Dec 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–No column from Marty Varner today. He’s jet lagged from flying home from college in the east, the web master was supposed to know that but got spaced out because he (web master not Marty) haD eye surgery this morning, but the...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
THERE AIN’T NO NOTES ON A DULCIMER – YOU JUST PLAY IT!- JOE CLARK, 1892This little missal is going to be about several small things – all connected – so be patient. The beginning was like this:PART ONE – LEE BRADY – What she was going to doMy wife...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2016 | Welcome Column
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.” ? L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I just returned home, from a 16 day...
by Christine | Apr 16, 2020 | Welcome Column
How times have changed. At the end of last year we were beginning to get disturbing reports of a new virus threat, and by the spring COVID-19 had turned into a global pandemic. Those of us fortunate enough to have so far survived have huge sympathy for the people who...
by Christine | Jun 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
You might think I’m talking about the bass playing style in some of the early Monroe and Stanley Brother recordings or in some blues, boogie, swing or bebop jams, but I’m not. What I am talking about is not lugging my bass around the 90 acres of the Nevada County...
