“ain’t no part of nothin”

Bluegrass, blues, a little swing, beer and of course, the fruit of the agave, are just a few of the topics I’ll hit on this month. I might even mention my bass a couple of times. You’re right nothing new here. Ah, but it is my job to make it interesting, Let’s see if...

Coffee House Chatter

Every performer who’s ever worked a coffee house atmosphere has probably had the same complaint. And that is the incessant chatter from the audience who think a conversation while the band is playing is something that every other single person there actually...

Coffey Park

Some places you just don’t want to go back to. One such place for me until recently was the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa. North Santa Rosa was destroyed by a raging wildfire last October. The fire jumped from the hillsides of the upscale Fountain Grove...

COLDEST OF COLD CHISTMASES WAS COLDER THAN THAT!

This a repost of mine from a year ago. I repost it because of several reasons – because it is certainly my most memorable Christmas; because I like to continue to thank the US Navy crew who picked me up in Hamhung Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1950; and because too many of...