by Christine | Sep 12, 2009 | Welcome Column
The Bear. Not your average bear. The Golden Bear. The Golden Bear was a club in Huntington Beach, California. Southern California that is. It’s gone now, but not forgotten (R.I.P. 1926-1986). You could go there and hear live music. The opportunity arouse in 1967...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
I don’t know…there’s just something about Bakersfield. Every time the highway gets me close, my heart seems to beat a little faster. Coming up to Oildale. Thinking about Merle Haggard, and about the time he walked through a jam down at the doubletree during the great...
by Christine | Aug 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
It’s ten o’clock on Thursday night and I just had the unsettling realization that my column is due tomorrow. That would be today, if this is Friday. Last week I wrote a beauty. It would have rivaled Shakespeare. The culmination of the work of a lifetime. It would’ve...
by Christine | Nov 25, 2009 | Welcome Column
I had written a beautiful column for this Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. I read through my previous 4 Thanksgiving columns, and drew excerpts from each, and added more pithy, poignant commentary. Unfortunately, you’ll never see it. I left it on my computer at...
by Christine | Dec 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
It was a year ago this month that I played my last two gigs. At the time, I thought they were okay and fun to play but nothing special. In both gigs I got to play with some good players but both were casuals as they say “in the parlance of our times” (I stole that...
by Christine | Oct 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Congratulations to the new CBA Board! They take over at a time when things anything but business as usual, but I have every confidence they will lead the Association ably through 2021 and beyond. Congratulations to the CBA and its members for such an historic turnout,...
