by Bert Daniel | Oct 1, 2021 | Welcome Column
Dear CBA members. This will be my last column. Many years ago, Rick Cornish asked if I would be willing to be one of the CBA Welcome Column Writers. Rick knew I was a sucker for flattery, and no one could pour it on like Rick. Rick enthusiastically explained...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 16, 2021 | Welcome Column
In recent years my musical horizons have broadened. At first I put this down to simple nostalgia. Now well into my seventies, I have certainly found myself remembering how –much earlier in my life – I first discovered bluegrass, old time, jazz and blues music. The...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 14, 2021 | Welcome Column
Banjo players tend to get kidded a lot and jokes about them abound. In the interest of equal time, perhaps it’s time for some other instruments to have some good natured fun poked at them. Here’s a sampling of jokes about those oversize fiddle players we all treasure:...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Here’s what I wrote ten years ago about what happenened in 2001: December 7th. September 11. In our country we remember these two dates as shocking moments of disaster caused by some of our fellow human beings. Human beings who calculated destruction for those of...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 13, 2022 | Welcome Column
As so often, my current reflections have been prompted by music that I’ve happened to hear on the television. This time it was a snatch of the song ‘Stay’ which was the first major UK chart success for the Hollies in late 1963. I had always assumed that it was an...
