by Christine | Feb 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
As I look back on 40+ years of playing music, there were a lot of steps along the way. Some of them I recognized as steps, some were specific goals, and others I only realized were breakthroughs as I’ve watched others go through them. I imagine a lot of things I think...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2013 | Welcome Column
So what do Miley Cyrus and my old jeans have in common? Nothing. My old jeans just don’t fit anymore. As I found a pair buried in my closet. These jeans must be fifteen years old,and I’ll tell you what: no matter how much weight I might ever lose, those old pants just...
by Christine | Aug 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing one of the best young edge bands out today, Milk Drive, at my local restaurant, Don Quixote’s. I had seen them a few years earlier at IBMA. At that time it was difficult not to hear the buzz about them, and I was not...
by Christine | Nov 21, 2015 | Welcome Column
There is nothing that compares with returning to your childhood home; the only thing that would make it sweeter is to share the experience with your siblings. I spent my childhood on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, a small village that is situated along the...
by Christine | Apr 7, 2016 | Welcome Column
With an extra week this month, you’d think I could come up with something special and dad gum it, I believe I have. (You know, for my new metaphysical and mindful self, there’s nothing like a positive affirmation to instill the confidence I need to deliver a top-notch...
by Christine | Jul 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
A few years back I used my monthly column space to talk about the difficulties I was having trying to book the two bands I was in. I was going to use the herding cats analogy but decided it was too cliché so my Mountain View based research company (I believe in...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
I always find it fun as my monthly deadline for this welcome column approaches to search for a catch phrase or a hook that I can use and riff on, if you will.It turns out that I have been having a problem with one of the bands I’m in and I was intending to use the...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2019 | Welcome Column
I said I wouldn’t do it any more. Much more trouble than it is worth. What am I talking about, you ask.? Well I’m talking about herding cats or because I wanted another non cliche’ way to describe this very thankless enterprise, minding mice at the crossroads. I...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Resurrected from 2013)I’m sure that if all of us sat down and reflected on our past life,we could probably come up with at least two or three genuinemiracles that have happened to us. You may ask, what got me tothinking about this subject...
by Christine | Aug 4, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, It’s mish-mash Monday, when your brain addled correspondent (me) tries to create the image of a man with his finger on the bluegrass button. Good morning and welcome to the CBA website. Well, I survived another CBA board of directors meeting yesterday....
