by Christine | May 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
You’ve heard it. You’ve listened to it many times. You like it. You love it. You’ve tried to sing it. You did sing it. You memorized it. That’s right. The catchy song penned and sung by Tim O’Brien with Hot Rize, “Nellie Kane.”“What?” Some of you may say. You don’t...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
A couple of years ago I read an article that cited research from MIT suggesting that “human brains don’t just recognize music – our evolution has actually produced a dedicated neural circuit for it.” The researchers were excited about how continued studies might...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
With six months to go till the CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival, I give you a compilation of festivation and camping wisdom:1. The only thing worse than having a spider in your tent is losing a spider in your tent.2. Remember to bring a large indelible marker for...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2020 | Welcome Column
A few weeks ago I attended an open jam session at an East Bay bar and restaurant. There were about a dozen pickers there from older geezers like me (one fellow who said he had actually played in a New York coffee house years ago with a young Bob Dylan) to some much...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
“There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.” — F. Scott FitzgeraldIsn’t Mr. Fitzgerald on point when you pause to think of these 15 words. All strung together; all connected for reasons, deep: Each word...
