by Christine | Feb 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round, children, Uncle Bruce is gonna lay some wisdom on you. What’s that you say? I’m not really your uncle? Well, technically, you’re right. But I AM avuncular (look it up) – and the only guy more avuncular than me is Cliff Compton, and this is my column...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
If each and every one of us were to set down and ponder the changes in our life over the last 20 or maybe 25 years, I’m sure that we would realize that most of the changes in our life did not follow the plan that we laid out. Such is the case with my life, and...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
As Christmas, 1959, approached I was a freshman at Contra Costa College in beautiful San Pablo, California. I wanted a guitar for Christmas. Not just any guitar, but a Fender Stratocaster, which, then and now, I considered the most beautiful,...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Jimmy Dale Rimes (rhymes with “dimes”) is a bluegrass musician. An All-American no doubt about it card carrying banjo player; the 5-string banjo (no way would he be caught with a 4 string, Dixieland type, play it in a pizza parlor strumming with a flat-pick kind of...
by Christine | Dec 10, 2014 | Welcome Column
Well, it’s that time of the year again. The Christmas season, also known more by the more secular Holiday Season. Whatever the reason, a lot of good things happen this time of year. By and large, families are together more, and we all – all of us – try to...
