More gratuitous self-promotion for my monthly one-hour radio show on WMKY here in Morehead, KY. This show I actually recorded a week ago, instead of pulling something from the archive that I cut some months back. I figured even if […]
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Will James’ comments on a previous blog suggested perhaps a little history might be in order. I shall try to be brief, will rely on no notes but my noggin, and invite correction. In the beginning…I don’t remember what it […]
When I was a boy, I collected stamps, right up until the moment the big time dealer all the way from Philadelphia glanced at the rare items I’d found among my grandmother’s refuse and declared that they were not from […]
What follows is an attempt to corral some ideas running loose after reading Easy Ed’s blog about the new Apple gadget, and the coming of what is called cloud computing, which I take to mean that all the software (programs, […]
I feel like telling a story tonight. It has nothing to do with anything, but it does have the singular virtue of being mostly true. In the mid-1980s I sold my first business, a one-person typesetting shop, and set about […]
Once again abject self-promotion of a radio show that very few people can hear. You can, of course, go to the WMKY website and stream the show this Friday at 7 p.m. EST. But the whole podcast thing costs more […]
In no especial order… (1) I finally put the Courtyard Hounds album in the CD player in the little red truck, though it wasn’t what I was listening to when I backed into the football player this afternoon. It leaves […]
Through the continuing kindness of the folks at Signature Sounds, I was able to begin listening to Eilen Jewell’s Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn some months before it came out. When this site sponsored a contest around the […]
It is not so much that I wish to contemplate the future of bluegrass, though it seems rather less assured that it did in the heady days following O Brother. (But, then, everything seems less assured than it did ten […]
This is simply too good not to share, though it’s far enough off topic that I shall apologize in advance. As those who have followed my posts here know, I live in a small town. We have a small newspaper, […]
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