by Christine | Feb 14, 2010 | Welcome Column
Be nobody’s darling but mine love, Be honest, be faithful and kind, And promise me that you will ever, Be nobody’s darling but mine. Yes folks, today is a day for love songs. Play and sing a few of your own favorites today for that special someone who plays the...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
Is it just me or does this happen to everyone? A jam is just starting and someone calls a song and a key. There is a kick and the music starts to flow but right away something is off. I start checking my left hand position, putting my ear next to the strings, looking...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
Recently I had a major tuner crisis. My last Intellitouch PT-10 just stopped functioning. It wasn’t a battery problem. It just wouldn’t turn on at all. I used to have four of them a couple of months back but all of them self destructed or just plain disappeared....
by Christine | Nov 18, 2017 | Welcome Column
On the year of my twelfth Thanksgiving I lived the rural life on a large and wild chunk of property in the Sierra foothills. We lived atop a huge meadow which was completely surrounded by mixed conifer forest. Our ranch lay at the end of a two-mile patchwork of forest...
by Christine | Apr 14, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, The campout was cooooooool. The weather was not – it was perfect. Man, the only thing I don’t like about Turlock is the noise. Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to love trains, being a country goober, and I kind of do. But there’s a limit and those things...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2015 | Welcome Column
Gateway to the Central Valley and gateway to the summer, for bluegrass fans in California. The CBA has held their spring campout here at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds for quite a few years running now. It’s fairly centrally located, especially for folks living...
