by Christine | May 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
Back before the viral change happened, I jammed on Monday nights with some really good guys and some good music usually. I’m telling you this so can tell you another something more relevant to this column. On the drive home from the jam, I tune my Sirius XM radio, in...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
Okay, let’s face it, time marches on, and if we are fortunate so do we. The birth years become the early years. The early years become the teen years. The teen years become the young adult years. The young adult years become the adult years, leading to the senior...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
Roger Jones called me up one night a couple of weeks ago and he said, “I’ve got a twelve string guild I’ve been working on that I don’t know what to do with. Would you like it?” And since I had a few square feet of floor space left that didn’t have a guitar resting on...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2019 | Welcome Column
Rain DanceThey squinted and danced through the rain as they crossed the studio parking lot. Then they clambered up the steps to the door, balancing drums, cymbals, and hardware, all wrapped in towels and blankets to keep them dry. Scott Clark had brought the good drum...
by Christine | May 18, 2020 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay” (Job 33:6)We all grow up somewhere and we all get used to those surroundings like it’s the only place on earth. The land forms a certain way. The contour is what we...
by Christine | Sep 10, 2020 | Welcome Column
To walk in amber glow while knowingglow in daylight means a devil ember in the wind and hither, not so far to yon,and on its own for all this red sky morn.Hear it whisper in it’s trickster voices:”I’ll be for the country roses bloomingyou know...
by Christine | Sep 9, 2010 | Welcome Column
Monday was Labor Day and it got me thinking about how the labor movement affected my life. My father worked most of his life at the American Smelting & Refining Company (ASARCO) lead refinery in the tiny village of Selby, just west of Crockett, where I grew up....
by Christine | Oct 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Last fall, just about a year ago, I fired Regina from her Welcome columnist job. I had what I considered a good reason; she’d neglected to send me her essay for the month and she’d neglected to let me know it wouldn’t be sent. Now, the first offense isn’t really an...
by Christine | May 28, 2017 | Welcome Column
The other day, in response to a post examining issues of taste and breadth of vision in bluegrass I was accused of being a Yankee (guilty) and of bringing a Yankee sensibility to my analysis of what’s happening in bluegrass music (maybe not so guilty). The post,...
by Christine | Aug 21, 2018 | Welcome Column
The other day, in response to a post examining issues of taste and breadth of vision in bluegrass I was accused of being a Yankee (guilty) and of bringing a Yankee sensibility to my analysis of what’s happening in bluegrass music (maybe not so guilty). The post,...
