by Christine | Jan 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
I used to be crazy about fishing and I particularly enjoyed catfishing. I would use a nice chunk of smelly bait, made out of liver, bread dough, and cotton, (a very secret recipe) press it onto my hook, and cast the line out. In my neighborhood the best way to catch...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2012 | Welcome Column
My first thought as I approached my vehicle as I was preparing to leave from the gig was, “What is all of that ice doing around my car?” It’s funny how the mind sometimes reacts when it sees something that it cannot immediately comprehend. It was just a short moment...
by Christine | Aug 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Dave Williams from 2013)I’m a bass player in a jug band. Ain’t that what the jug supposed to do? I’m not sure there is enough bottom to go around. Too much bottom can’t be good for the universe…….or good for anything.The jug and the bass...
by Christine | Aug 24, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can’t help responding to its honesty. It’s music that finds its way deep...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’m writing this on Wednesday night but by the time you read this on Friday, I’ll be up at Walker Creek Ranch with about 200 other bluegrass and old-time music folks at the second annual CBA Winter Music Camp. At this moment, I’ve still got a lot of packing to do and...
by Christine | Mar 17, 2014 | Welcome Column
I’m very proud to claim Irish heritage on this Saint Patrick’s Day, but as Kermit the frog said, it’s not easy being green. My surname is derived from the Irish name O’Daniel and I have no idea why my ancestors emigrated from the Emerald Isle to the “Greenfields of...
by Christine | Nov 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have suffered some vision problems lately; no, it’s nothing serious! I just can’t view the CBA Website from my work anymore. I never thought I spent all that much time at the CBA Website, but once I couldn’t do it, I was taken aback by how disconnected I feel. It’s...
by Christine | Jan 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
Greetings from the road! I’m up in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, playing in Oregon and Washington with my solo show and teaching workshops at Dusty Strings in Seattle. I make this road trip each year about this time and I’ve luckily escaped the snow and rain...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Back in the 1970s I worked for the Oakland Tribune as a copy editor, headline writer and layout person. The Trib in those days had an annual Music in the Home section, which was basically designed to encourage advertisers (piano stores, stereo stores, music stores,...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
I mailed in the paperwork yesterday to the California Department of Consumer Affairs to turn in my beloved old 1983 Dodge van to the cash for clunkers program. In one way it’s a brilliant deal: I paid $2,600 for that car back in 1994. Eighteen years later I’ll be...
