by Christine | Feb 5, 2008 | Welcome Column
For reasons that only a psychoanalyst at the top of her game could divine, I awoke this morning thinking about the blue-haired lady who hired my bluegrass band for a gig at the San Mateo Elks Lodge back in 1979. She was the wife of the top Elk guy, the Supreme Bull,...
by Christine | Jan 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
Just popped into CBA Headquarters to purloin a bottle of white out, and it’s a ghost town in here! What the–? Oh, yeah, everyone’s down in Bakersfield for the Great 48! Have fun everyone!
by Christine | Oct 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Mrs. Slim and I just returned from a vacation in and around Anchorage, Alaska. Those folks have exaggerated some of their biggest selling points, to wit: They claim to have the highest mountain, Mt. McKinley (aka Denali) in the U.S.A., but when you get there they...
by Christine | Dec 12, 2016 | Welcome Column
Pop Quiz: Who’s in Sideline? That’s not meant as an insult. It’s meant to show what makes this band special. The material and pickers may have changed during the bands years on the road, but Steve Dilling’s outfit has always kept nuanced traditional sound and the new...
by Christine | May 26, 2014 | Welcome Column
San Diego has been home to many a successful bluegrass musician. One example is Alison Brown.She grew up in the La Jolla area playing bluegrass banjo and guitar at The Pizza Place, a monthly jam where she met and played often with world-renown bluegrass fiddler Stuart...
by Christine | Feb 19, 2016 | Welcome Column
Trains and bluegrass go together like Lester and Earl, as J.D. would put it. You and I between us could probably come up with enough songs about trains off the top of our heads to keep a jam going for hours. That’s pretty much what a small band of bluegrass brothers...
