by Christine | Sep 4, 2020 | Welcome Column
Foibles,Bon Mots, and Thoughts “My favorite poem is the one that starts, “ Thirty days hath September” because it actually tells you something.” Groucho Marx.Seven more days and Sheila and I will be celebrating our 49th anniversary. The trip to...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, just a few square feet under six acres that is more demanding than a young bride born with a silver spoon in her mouth, six acres populated by one house, one barn, one feed shed and one wood shed that all have roofs just aching to leak...
by Christine | Dec 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Wind Hate the wind, but I’ve got a good reason for it. As a child I suffered from a learning disability…..spatial relations disorder…..which is a fancy way of saying that when I look at words on a printed page the letters seem more like ants scurrying about than they...
by Christine | May 14, 2010 | Welcome Column
James King sings a song called “stumbling in my father’s footsteps.” When I hear him sing it, it always touches my heart, because it’s the way I feel every day of my life. My daddy was small church pastor, moved from here to there by his denomination over the last...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
I have written columns previously about all the things that go wrong at a gig. It was fun and cathartic to recall all the weird things that have happened in decades of playing live gigs in a bewildering variety of venues. Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong,...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have written columns previously about all the things that go wrong at a gig. It was fun and cathartic to recall all the weird things that have happened in decades of playing live gigs in a bewildering variety of venues. Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong,...
by Christine | Sep 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
I remember the first time I saw a bar code sticker stuck to the fruit I was buying at the supermarket. I was shocked, and somewhat offended that this natural product had been assaulted by our fast paced technological world. I cautiously gouged that sticker away from...
by Christine | Mar 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
You’re watching a bluegrass band perform at a festival. They’re terrific – they hit the stage, jumped into their first tune with minimal preamble and they’re very tight. They squeeze 14 songs into their 50 minute set. Their set has a perfect flow – strong...
by Christine | Feb 20, 2019 | Welcome Column
You’re watching a bluegrass band perform at a festival. They’re terrific – they hit the stage, jumped into their first tune with minimal preamble and they’re very tight. They squeeze 14 songs into their 50 minute set. Their set has a perfect flow – strong...
by Christine | Oct 9, 2017 | Welcome Column
Obviously when a band goes through personnel changes, the product is going to be different. Jamie Johnson’s voice will always loom over this band until its completion, and the last few albums have been trying to reconcile the loss of possibly their most pivotal piece...
