by Christine | Jun 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
You might think I’m talking about the bass playing style in some of the early Monroe and Stanley Brother recordings or in some blues, boogie, swing or bebop jams, but I’m not. What I am talking about is not lugging my bass around the 90 acres of the Nevada County...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2019 | Welcome Column
Hello! Things are very very quiet here at CBA headquarters in beautiful Ceres, California. Actually, there is no CBA HQ per se – please don’t tell anyone.But it IS darn quiet, because pretty much everyone is up in Lodi for the CBA Spring Campout...
by Christine | Oct 24, 2010 | Welcome Column
In my last column, I covered the Plymouth Festival. I barely got home from that event and did a little laundry and we headed south to Hobb’s Grove. Hobb’s is a nice setting for a festival; having a Country Fair atmosphere with a nice grassy camping area. The stage and...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
Writing this column a few days before January 1, I’ve pondered the list of potential topics that are scribbled in a note pad next to my computer. After ten Christmas vacation days of torpid inactivity, those topics requiring mental energy have been passed over. I’m...
by Christine | May 12, 2019 | Welcome Column
Noodling can be good and noodling can be bad. Full disclosure here, I really like to noodle around on my instrument. I do it almost every chance I get. I realize that were it not for noodling my music would get stale and I would have a tough time coming up with new...
