by Christine | Jan 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Hope everyone had a great time in Bakersfield at the CBA’s hugely successful Great 48! Welcome back to the “real” world, where a hot jam is not just a hallway away. Last time I wrote the 1st Monday Welcome column I was outlining and explaining the...
by Christine | Jul 27, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have two large portrait size photographs of two of my best friends Vern Williams and Ray Park, hanging in my living room. I look at them every morning noon and night. I love looking at these portrait size photographs that my good friend Tom Tworek took of them the...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2020 | Welcome Column
Last month I told you folks about the night my lips got polio fromdrinking too much Guinness Stout when the Vern Williams band wasplaying a gig with Rose Maddox at Raspberries nightclub in AngelsCamp California. For the last couple of days I have been dredging...
by Christine | Jun 30, 2009 | Welcome Column
I have to admit that, at least in my role as our web team leader, this is my favorite time of year. Traffic on cbaontheweb.org has been way up since June 21st, the last day of our Fathers Day Festival. While this has been pretty much the case immediately after each...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
New Country SongIf I could write a country song – say all red, white and’ blue – you know the stuff – ‘bout love and loss and I been done wrong too,” I’d bring my darling up on stage and light up her bright gold hair that she had doctored up...
by Christine | Aug 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
This is a second set of papers I came across while rifling through my therapist’s files while she was out of the room. It summarizes some of the methods therapists can use to help bluegrass pickers make a clean break and get their lives back, if they want them....
by Christine | May 10, 2015 | Welcome Column
Today is Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Today also happens to be the birthday of Maybelle Carter. “Mother Maybelle”, as she was called even in her forties, was born on May 10, 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia. She was certainly a mother...
by Christine | May 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
Today is Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Today also happens to be the birthday of Maybelle Carter. “Mother Maybelle”, as she was called even in her forties, was born on May 10, 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia. She was certainly a mother...
by Christine | May 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
Sometimes it seems like everyone these days is part of their own live reality show on streaming video. When I was a kid, that sort of technology was just getting started. Personal photography was pretty established and some people I knew were even able to make their...
by Christine | Apr 3, 2014 | Welcome Column
I spent more than a couple of these 1st Thursdays talking about being retired and what I would be spending my copious free time on. I’ve talked many times about bass playing, rehearsing or practicing, taking lessons, walking with lots of flats, jamming and...
