by Christine | Apr 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
I like playing music. I bet a lot of you like doing it to. And, nine times out of ten, it’s a no brainer. You grab your instrument and attend a jam or a gig. Piece of cake, right? Not so fast! Evil forces are at work, conspiring to keep you from the musical enjoyment...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2017 | Welcome Column
I love most animals—my Lab Alex and my Border Collie Sid are at the top of the list. There are a few animals that just sort of creep me out (snakes for example), even fewer that I don’t like (parrots for example), but there’s only one kind of animal that I can...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2004 | Welcome Column
I love most animals—my Lab Alex and my Border Collie Sid are at the top of the list. There are a few animals that just sort of creep me out (snakes for example), even fewer that I don’t like (parrots for example), but there’s only one kind of animal that I can...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2011 | Welcome Column
This is the time of year when many musicians spend almost as much time inside an airplane or tour vehicle as they do at home. While I’m not out on the road as much as many of my bluegrass musician friends, I have traveled enough to see how the road itself can, in its...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2019 | Welcome Column
Pay it forward: a term originating in ancient Greece, and used by folks from Ben Franklin to Robert A. Heinlein, describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to others instead of to the original benefactor.(The following story occurred as a result of my...
by Christine | Aug 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
As I sit here and write this, I am on the heels of my Mother’s sister, Auntie Niece, leaving after a three day visit. She is 94 now, and though she has a smile of a 20 year old and that ever-sparkly glint of love in her eyes, when you speak to her… she is...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2009 | Welcome Column
When I go to work, my commute takes almost an hour. That’s a lot of down time, in the car all by myself, with nothing else to do. Empty hours and larger fuel bills are two of the sacrifices my wife and I, commuting in opposite directions, have to make in order to stay...
by Christine | Oct 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; in my almost 80 years of living, most of it outdoors working, hunting and fishing, a life well lived. I have had the company of several fine hunting dogs, my father’s and uncles, as well as my own, mostly black labs a most noble breed of...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
Looking back over a long, undistinguished show business “career” I ponder, what makes any particular gig enjoyable?Scrolling back through my mind, it seems my most memorable shows were ones where we got paid well — but also had an engaged audience. ...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
If you join a band, and you practice enough and get some gigs, your friends and family will be excited for you. If you have a big family, and are gregarious, the sum total of your relatives and acquaintances can provide a ready-to-go audience to nearly every local gig...
