I like that this time of year is called “The Holidays.” I mean, there are so many “Big Ones” (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Boxing Day, New...
The annual International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event concluded last month in Nashville, Tennessee. This is bluegrass music’s biggest event of the year, featuring...
As my flight lifts off from the Baton Rouge runway, a silvery trickle of sunlight glints along the plane’s wing (of which I have a perfect...
Hello Troubadourians! This month I’m writing about something non-technical for a change. I spent the weekend of October 19-21 at the FAR-West Conference, performing with my...
I’ve tried to keep politics out of these columns but if you knew something about my background, you’d know that isn’t always possible. At any rate,...
Andrew “Cactus” Soldi, Eugene “Smokey” Rogers, and Larry “Pedro” DePaul all got together as members of the Texas Jim Lewis Band (the Lone Star Cowboys) who...
Hello Troubadourians! For the past two months we’ve been talking about Equalization (EQ) and how we can use it to make our amplified guitars and voices...
I remember the first time I heard about mixing with busses. Actually, no… I don’t. I was sleeping. I woke up in the car on the...
Jamming is when folks come together with their instruments to play the classics, to try out new material, to meet new friends, and to participate in...
