by Bert Daniel | Feb 6, 2022 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: Where oh where is pretty little Susie? Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch (traditional) Spring is springing already here in California! And there is no greater delight than watching the trees bloom each spring. Like many others during the COVID era I...
by Bert Daniel | Feb 4, 2022 | Welcome Column
I can tell you from experience. It’s not a bad thing at all to be stuck in Lodi. For years now the CBA has held its fall or spring campout at the Grape Festival Grounds in Lodi. By April we may be somewhat out of this pandemic mess and I hope we will be able to...
by Bruce Campbell | Feb 2, 2022 | Welcome Column
I’ll never make a living on music. There. I said it. My parents were right. I tried, I really did. But I discovered that a few things were holding me back. First and foremost, I don’t have enough talent to rise to the upper 1/10 of 1%. I just don’t. I have some...
by Bert Daniel | Jan 30, 2022 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST: “If nature has ever produced a more perfect thing than the mesmerizing beauty of this starling swarm, I have yet to encounter it. No other phenomenon has ever stopped me in my tracks quite like this, made me forget everything else in the world except...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 13, 2022 | Welcome Column
I’m very proud to claim Irish heritage on this Saint Patrick’s Day, but as Kermit the frog said, it’s not easy being green. My surname is derived from the Irish name O’Daniel and I have no idea why my ancestors emigrated from the Emerald Isle to the “Greenfields of...
by Maggie Sokolik | Jan 27, 2022 | Bluegrass History, Bluegrass Musicians, Welcome Column
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, publicity photo, University of Missouri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I took another dip into the archives this month, and I chose an issue of the Breakdown that had a bit of sentimental meaning for me. I chose one that...
