by Christine | Dec 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
Suppose you decide to play a recording from Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, or the Stanley Brothers or Flatt and Scruggs. You’re about to listen to some Bluegrass music, right? After all, these are the bands that form the pillars of the genre we now call Bluegrass...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2013 | Welcome Column
Old Doc wasn’t really that old, but he’d been at it a long time. During thirty years of practice in this small town he’d delivered most of the current residents who were under that age. He worked very hard but it was worth it for him. Sure, it was...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
Maybe you know how to spot them. Maybe you’ve see them being played on various bluegrass festival stages, or in jams. Or maybe not. But they are there, occasionally, every so often, or once in a “blue moon.”Sometimes their sound will catch your ear. Sometimes...
by Christine | Sep 11, 2010 | Welcome Column
Maybe you know how to spot them. Maybe you’ve see them being played on various bluegrass festival stages, or in jams. Or maybe not. But they are there, occasionally, every so often, or once in a “blue moon.” Sometimes their sound will catch your ear. Sometimes...
by Christine | Dec 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
Someone asked me recently for a copy of a cassette tape which was recorded in 1980. As I am now in my eighth decade, 1980 feels like yesterday, and it came as a bit of a shock to realise that I received that tape nearly forty years ago. I eventually found it by...
by Christine | Oct 26, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have to confess something right now. I am an aging baby boomer. These days, when I listen to music it’s mostly music that has been around for quite some time. Don’t get me wrong. It’s great music and anyone could enjoy it just as much as I do. But let’s face it, I’m...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2013 | Welcome Column
Every year around this time I put everything aside and go to work on the Posarela, a staged Christmas story based mostly on some old traditional Mexican holiday songs. Itís put on by a community music center in my neighborhood called the Community Music Center. You...
by Christine | Nov 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
Recently, I completed a goal that had eluded me for about a half a century. I read through the entire Old Testatment from beginning to end. And, in a big way, Bluegrass was my inspiration! Even though my column generally falls on a Sunday, I write about religious...
by Christine | Nov 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Mark on old time music back in 2013. Merry Christmas, folks. RC) Dear friends,Happy Monday morning. Half the clocks in our house say it’s an hour later, so I’m living in a world of “Hey! I’ve got an extra hour to live my...
by Christine | Sep 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
“Here’s one of the old timers we got picked out here for you today, that I’ve heard ever since I was just a little bitty boy down in the country there …….” This was how Earl Taylor introduced Short Life of Trouble on a recording in 1959, and it is typical of the way...
