by Christine | Apr 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
A very important family function will keep me away from Saturday’s opening night at The Back Room, a new, intimate, acoustic-oriented performance space in Berkeley. The space has been developed by Sam Rudin, who has had a long career in the Bay Area as a solo pianist,...
by Christine | May 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
Last month was the time of the most insulting awards show for the bluegrass community. The CMT awards consist of a night where the greatest current “country” music is presented and is the time of year when the greatest “country” artists perform and win awards for...
by Christine | Apr 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
We all want to be cool. That’s how we grow up, jockeying within our own peer groups to maximize our self esteem. Being cool is well, cool! Now that I’m past sixty years of age, it appears to me (and everybody else) that I’m not all that cool any more. My two teenagers...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where in an hour or so I’m begin day three of work on repairing the main water line from our pump to our house. My gosh, time flies. Old timers to cbaontheweb.org will remember that back in ancient times there was only one writer of...
by Christine | Apr 17, 2020 | Welcome Column
If you’re looking for some quarantine-appropriate music, look no further. Here are 40 tunes to bring you down, lift you up, remind you of better days, but also of brighter days ahead. There’s mostly bluegrass, but a bit of country, because if you’re like me, you think...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2015 | Welcome Column
Item 1: There’s a multicolored vehicle running around our friendly town of Turlock. The guy who owns it apparently is in the pest exterminating business. The motto on his truck says, Just Say “No!” to Bugs. Item 2: I received three calls last week from a gentleman...
