by Christine | Dec 18, 2003 | Welcome Column
Thursday, December 18, 2003 Okay, so this is not a story strictly related to bluegrass. Alright…..it’s not related to bluegrass music at all. But I’ll bet with a lot of time on my hands and way, way more talent than I actually have, I could use the story to write a...
by Christine | Sep 16, 2009 | Welcome Column
There was a lively thread on the Message Board recently wherein a reader made the “shameful admission” that his record collection didn’t have any Doyle Lawson. The admission was followed by a number of responses, suggesting some good recordings to fill out his...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2015 | Welcome Column
Sunday, August 30, 2015I have always been a huge fan of my fellow welcome columnist, Brooks Judd. His ten items or fewer concept has amused, entertained and challenged over the years with random observations about the world we all inhabit. So today for my fifth Sunday...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
Many years ago when I was a girl of thirteen, it was necessary for me to leave the comfort of my “nest” on the Hoopa Indian Reservation and I went to live in New York with an aunt and uncle who were “Rank Strangers” to me. As you might imagine, the transition was not...
by Christine | Sep 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
Back in January of 1973, my two good friends Vern and Ray did a tour of upstate New York and Eastern Canada. They wanted me to go along and play rhythm guitar with them, but I had a rare winter job that year so I could not go. A music friend of theirs who was from New...
by Christine | May 6, 2009 | Welcome Column
I have wrote before about how being in a band is like being in a family. And I still believe it – it’s an apt analogy. But I wonder what it’s like in the top ranks of professional music. With some notable exceptions, it seems that the personnel in band ranks change...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2013 | Welcome Column
Two seventeen a.m., for the past six months or so my new start time, give or take an hour, which is followed by five or six hours of the most deliciously peaceful reading and writing time, then by a shower, a little breakfast, work somewhere on the six acres, then...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
Few topics have inspired more bluegrass and old time song writing than the subject of moonshining. The New Lost City Ramblers devoted an entire LP to the subject called Prohibition is a Failure. And the fascination with the subject continues to the present day with...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
At this year’s World of Bluegrass business conference, Mike & I had the pleasure of being speakers at a workshop titled All Together Now: An Associations’ Focus that happened on Thursday afternoon at the Raleigh Convention Center. It was for local, regional and...
by Christine | Aug 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
This past Saturday Jeanie and I checked out the Sea Music Festival at San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier. While there wasn’t any bluegrass music, there was plenty of traditional, acoustic music, along workshops, living history demonstrations, and a bunch of people in...
