by Christine | Feb 21, 2011 | Welcome Column
Sound. Its’ vibration reaching our ear, becoming converted into nerve impulses and is then sent on to our brain. We’re surrounded by it most of the time. When some degree of silence finally comes it is a welcome break bringing time for reflection and peaceful...
by Christine | Sep 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
A long long time ago in a world where no two people ever shared the same opinion about anything, there lived a fellow by the name of Überlieferung. But he was known far and wide as just Übe. There also lived in this disagreeable land another fellow by the name of...
by Christine | Feb 5, 2020 | Welcome Column
Tonight I will be playing with the Whiskey Brothers at the Albatross Pub in Berkeley. I play there every first and third Wednesday (we call it Whiskey Wednesday). The Whiskey Brothers, as a band, have been doing this since around 2000, I think, and I joined the band...
by Christine | Mar 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
It seems to me that I wrote a column some time back about a certain month that I really hate. Funny thing is, I don’t recall exactly which one it is. It would be my guess that it was March. It has to be March. Why March? Because its immeasurable days are the final...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2013 | Welcome Column
Minnesota bassist Mark Anderson with Monroe Crossing gave me the idea to bring out this piece I wrote some time ago and rehash it a bit. As a bassist, I have to give Mark a lot of credit for advocating so strongly for another instrument. At the Blythe festival last...
by Christine | Sep 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where for the past two days we’ve been blessed with beautiful magenta-blue skies and enough of a breeze to erase any trace of the sickeningly gray ash that for days covered every square inch of our six-acre slice of heaven in the...
