Minding Mice (Reprise)

by | 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...

Minding Mice at a Crossroads

by | 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...

Minding Mice III

by | 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...

Miracle’s, past and hoped for

by | 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...

Mish-Mash Monday

by | 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....

Miss the Mississippi and You (Part 1)

by | Feb 6, 2009 | Welcome Column

“I’m growing tired of the big city lights Tired of the glamour and tired of the sights In all my dreams I am roaming once more Back to my home on the old river shore” A few months ago the Daily Welcome Column ran some information about a very special trip my sister,...

Missing My Buds

by | Jun 21, 2020 | Welcome Column

By the time you read this we will have moved on from the TYRO virtual FDF and will be thinking about next year’s FDF and other festivals to come.. We’ll be moving from the tease of June to the gut of summer with long languid days hot, maybe humid days, but alas...

Missing the Good Old Days

by | Jun 7, 2017 | Welcome Column

Just got the word – there’s no new Welcome Messages during the week leading up to the Father’s Day Festival. This is because so much of the hoi polloi of the CBA are bugging out to Grass Valley during the week. There’s nothing wrong with this practice – I...

Missing the making of it

by | Jul 18, 2011 | Welcome Column

A while back my wife, Lynn, posted on the Message Board that “Rick is feeling better”. I’d had two solid days without joint and muscle pain attacks (the first time in six weeks) and we both figured we were over the hump. And there was an out-pouring of many of my...