by Christine | Feb 8, 2017 | Welcome Column
One of the bands I’m in is breaking in a new member, and I had forgotten how much a new musician in the mix affects the band’s sound. It makes me realize that a band needs to decide if they’re going to expect a newcomer to conform to their sound, or embrace the...
by Christine | Jun 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
Typically there’s few things that’s agitates folks more than hearing a teacher complain about their summer vacation. After all, two months off of work is far better than a poke in the eye. In fact, I am down right protective of every second of that precious respite...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
“How many of you like classic country? Would you like to hear a song by Hank Williams (Ernest Tubb, Merle Haggard, Merle Travis, Hank Snow, George Jones)?” The voice from the stage at your favorite bluegrass festival asks the question. How many times have you heard a...
by Christine | Jul 19, 2007 | Welcome Column
Last March, CBA members Kenny and Carol House invited us, (me, Phil, plus my wife Ivona = Philvona), to their annual cioppino feed in Cloverdale. We drive through Cloverdale all the time to get to Mendocino or Upper Lake or other points north, but we’ve not...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2019 | Welcome Column
I remember the day I brought home my first guitar and excitedly opened the popular British instruction manual ‘Play In A Day’ by Bert Weedon. This classic book is still available, and its impact is summed up by the description on Amazon: “Play in a Day remains the...
by Christine | Aug 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black...
