Early Christmas Present

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it was an incredible 64 degrees yesterday…and STILL some snow remains on the ground. If you’re the sort of a person like I am whose love of listening to stories told by good story tellers goes back even before I could talk, it’s...

Easiest Column Ever – Happy Thanksgiving!

I can’t tell if anyone reads my Welcome Messages anymore – I don’t seem the elicit the reactions I used to. Possibly I’ve grown boring, or the readers are struck dumb in amazement. But it doesn’t matter, because the today the privilege of writing the Wednesday...

Easiest Column of the Year

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving – my favorite holiday. It’s completely secular, devoid of scandal or partisan taint. It satisfies a very important, and very human, need: Step back from the bustle and bother of daily life, and give thanks. Hopefully, this is not the...

Easter Set List

Happy Easter everybody! I had another column all written for you today. But I sent it to to my web posting emissary (a guy who actually owns and raises llamas, if you can believe that), when I realized that today is Easter! It falls early this year and even earlier in...

Ed Baker’s idea gets legs

Several years ago, when the CBA suffered its SuperGrass financial disaster, Association members came up with many and varied ideas for generating revenue to restore our fiscal house. We implemented many of the schemes and, happily, our reverses are back where they...

Ed Neff Porch Talk Interview

This is a re-post of an interview that previously appeared in the CBA Breakdown.This interview is from a hot August Sonoma afternoon where I the privilege of chatting with the legendary fiddle and mandolin player Ed Neff.DB: Tell us a little about your background?EN:...