by Christine | Mar 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
A blast from a Spring past.. Listening to spring training baseball on the radio, and eagerly welcoming opening for this season, I am struck once again by the intricate connections between bluegrass and baseball. This time, it was the pace and attitude I noticed....
by Christine | Mar 22, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s one of Henry’s efforts from 2009) Every now and then, we find ourselves in jams that are so much fun that we stay in them for hours. The weather’s great, you have a compatible bunch of pickers, the perfect mix of instruments, and a blissful...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s a good one from Marcos a while back) Frankly, I can’t really remember not ever listening to bluegrass, though I suppose that technically, mere listening does not necessarily equate to be “hooked.” I’ll never forget the time when in 1962, by dad...
by Christine | Mar 21, 2021 | Welcome Column
Last night I was washing the dishes, streaming an online feed that I like to listen to and a Cat Stevens (as he was known then) song popped up. I was immediately transformed, transported, magically transmogrified to a different place and time…it was really jarring....
by Christine | Mar 20, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: Here’s on of Maggie’s from a couple years back. We need this sort of list because hopefully soon we will have turned the COVID corner and we’ll need good songs to play with each other again.) A couple years ago, the Bluegrass Situation published...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Introduction to the old B-Westerns I wanna try and talk about real cowboys but who knows how they stank, and thanks but nope, for romance crap – I ain’t frantic to get that close when they’ve been squat in the saddle, addle-brained from direct Arizona sun and...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2021 | Welcome Column
I have a clear childhood memory of the occasion when I first met someone who spoke a foreign language fluently. I still remember the excitement of discovering that this person could understand my simple schoolboy French and that I could understand her replies....
by Christine | Dec 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
I don’t know anybody in this world that cannot say the aforementioned statement with any truth to it. We all wish we had not done some things, and in retrospect after the moment has passed, we all wish we had done certain things. Every year as the month of June...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2021 | Welcome Column
My introduction into the Bay Area bluegrass community began, oddly enough, at an Oscars party. It was March 2003 when I walked several blocks in the rain to a Sunday night gathering of movie buffs, and a few jammers, none of whom I had ever met. I was expecting a jam,...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note. Reading Carolyn’s column from the past is making me hungry. It is not easy to find truly worthy biscuits and gravy) Nothing is more comforting, savory, tasty and satisfying to eat for breakfast than biscuits and gravy. Objectively, it’s just a pile...
