by Christine | Mar 9, 2019 | Welcome Column
been born in 1954 in Cordell Kentucky.gotten your first mandolin at age 5.been on the same stage with Bill Monroe, while playing Bill’s 1923 Gibson Lloyd Loar signed mandolin at age 6.played with Flatt & Scruggs at age 7.joined Ralph Stanley’s band at...
by Christine | Mar 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
If you want an instrumental challenge, trying taking up the fiddle. If you want a life-long pursuit of trying to master a musical instrument, play the fiddle. There is some evidence that the fiddle has its roots in Europe during the 10th century, and by now fiddles...
by Christine | Aug 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
“You never write. You never...
by Christine | Oct 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
The first Strawberry Music Festival was held in the town of Strawberry, California. My first wife and I were there living in a VW Van, but only for the event. Dan Crary, the guitarist’s guitarist, was one of the main headliners. I can’t remember the rest. I do...
by Christine | Nov 10, 2018 | Welcome Column
This last October (2018) some folks who have the power took Bill Monroe’s (The Father of Bluegrass) beloved 1923 Gibson F5 Lloyd Loar signed mandolin out of its prison resting place (Bluegrass Hall of Fame), and put it in the able hands of Ricky Skaggs. Then in front...
by Christine | May 9, 2015 | Welcome Column
It’s June 2001. John Hartford is on the cover of a popular bluegrass magazine, wearing his brown derby hat. His long, mixed brown and grey hair falls below the rim of the hat and rests on a red scarf that is wrapped around his neck. A couple of his music albums are...
by Christine | Jan 9, 2016 | Welcome Column
You know about it, or you should know about it, if you are a bonified (or if you prefer, bona fide), dyed in the wool blue-grasser. The “it” in this case is the well known monthly magazine regarding all things bluegrass, titled, “Bluegrass...
by Christine | Oct 10, 2015 | Welcome Column
Not too long ago I was up in Oregon at my pickin’ buddy’s five acre, pine tree studded sanctuary. One of the television stations he watches is RFD-TV. Among others, that station televises re-runs of Hee-Haw, and the Marty Stuart Show. Prior to my...
by Christine | Dec 12, 2015 | Welcome Column
The CBA “Great 48” Mega Jam is just around the corner; January 7-10, 2016, in Buck Owens’ and Merle Haggard’s city of Bakersfield. Yes, that’s right, four days of bluegrass jamming. But what’s the big deal? What’s the medium...
by Christine | Feb 10, 2018 | Welcome Column
If you were around twenty years old in the late 1940’s you may have been a witness to the original bluegrass experience. If you were in the right place at the right time. The ultimate bluegrass experience, that is. You got to see and hear...
