Bad Gigs

After reading Sid Lewis’ column yesterday, I got the idea to write about bad gigs. If performing musicians have to suffer through some bad day jobs to pursue their dreams, they also have to endure some awful gigs along the way. But when I thought back, even the worst...

Bakersfield Bound

For several years running now, I have seen the photos on the CBA website of folks having fun at the Bakersfield Jam (a/k/a The Great 48). Looked like a lot of fun, and I know, from having been to both Supergrass Festivals, that pickin’ in Bakersfield is a lot of fun....

Baked knockwurst and potatoes.

Daily grist.  After losing my youngest son and my oldest daughter at ages 27 and 46 respectively who most important lesson in life I learned is this. Never sweat the small stuff. It is all small stuff.   JDRhynes I know you’re probably asking...

Bakersfield of Dreams

A tumbleweed blows across Buck Owens Blvd… Lonely oil pumping stations creak and squeak in vacant lots and front yards …. A broken guitar string lies in a parking lot next to some cigarette butts… Oh, it’s quiet now, but soon this “little” town...

Bakersfield Revisited

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the peace, tranquility and domestic bliss of our little mountain retreat has been shattered by the arrival last Thursday of the dreaded C-PAP (continuous positive airway pressure) Machine to address the recently diagnosed acute...