Rainy Day Blues or Just Play some Blues?
It’s Saturday Jan. 30th with lots of rain! What, shouldn’t it be snowing? Oh well, I think some snow is coming next week. Living in Colorado for 15 years and in the mountains for most of that time I’m pretty used to snow, snow shoveling, and bringing in the wood to keep the house warm. So do you have the rainy day blues? Can we turn it around and play some blues on a mountain dulcimer? Yes, we could. A great website is from Steven Smith at this LINK explaining how this can b
From the President:
With recent explosion of interest in Sea Shanties, it seemed like a good idea to revisit an article I wrote back in 2017. I have more than just a passing interest in “Sea Shanties”. I spent 20 years in the Navy. As a chaplain, it worked out that about half of that time I happened to be assigned to Marine Corps Units of several types and I also spent a fair amount of time at sea. Shipboard life nowadays is vastly different than it was in sea shanty days, although some things a
