by Bert Daniel | Dec 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
I’ll never swim Kern River again, It was there that I met her, it was there that I lost my best friend (Merle Haggard) Isn’t Bakersfield a great time? I am looking forward to another one this year despite all the pandemic disruptions. One of our best ever in my...
by Maggie Sokolik | Dec 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
If you’ve ever played or heard “New Camptown Races,” then you know the music of Frank Wakefield. He is known for playing with Red Allen as well as the Greenbriar Boys. Back in 1960, he offered private mandolin lessons; and his star pupil was none other than David...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music is full of songs about the open road. These songs are among my personal favorites. They reflect the fact that we Americans are a very mobile people. We travel for many reasons and our songs mirror those reasons. We are fortunate that we have a...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 6, 2021 | Welcome Column
When I worked up north near Ukiah, my commute used to take an hour. That’s a lot of down time, in the car all by myself, with nothing else to do. Empty hours and larger fuel bills were two of the sacrifices my wife and I, commuting in opposite directions, had to make...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
If you been following along for the almost 8 years I’ve been inhabiting this space, you would know I’ve made a welcome column career sharing my views and tales regarding a number of areas and topics in my musical life that have caused me some level of frustration,...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
I was going through the newspaper a few years ago and I came across an article about how the east bay city of Albany relocated homeless people from a waterfront peninsula called the bulb in order to make way for a new park extension. A couple dozen or so of the last...
