by Christine | Dec 26, 2009 | Welcome Column
Have you ever gone to take a bite out of a piece of food, expecting one thing and then been totally surprised because it is not, I mean WAY not what you’d expected? Well I have. I can think of three examples right now, two that I personally experienced, and one in...
by Christine | Dec 26, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, which, even during the height of a down pour, which we’ve had, thank you Lord, plenty of, isn’t running much this year because a landowner upstream from us has decided, for whatever reason, not to replace a 36 inch culvert that has...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2003 | Welcome Column
One of our cbaontheweb.org visitors raised a good question on the Message Board yesterday. In part here’s what the visitor said—“How can we have a compition (sic) such as how I Got Hooked on Bluegrass or name that Musician or who wants so called Jamgrass when you are...
by Christine | May 11, 2005 | Welcome Column
When I got home from Stockton the evening evening before last, Lynn reported in her matter-of-fact way that I’d gotten some CBA mail and it was next to my computer, that a woman from San Bernardino called me about a job I’m doing for her, that she’d taken Sidney to...
by Christine | Nov 29, 2018 | Welcome Column
Playing banjo for 58 seconds — how hard could it be? Well, if the tape is running, harder than one would expect.I got an e-mail recently from a fellow who was making a CD and said he had got my name from someone who knew me and he needed 58 seconds of banjo...
by Christine | Dec 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
Many of you will get a day off tomorrow for the Columbus Day Holiday, but not me. September is the holiday month for me. Not only do I get Labor Day on the first Monday of the month like everybody else, I also get Native American Day on the fourth Friday. I work as a...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2009 | Welcome Column
Many of you will get a day off tomorrow for the Columbus Day Holiday, but not me. September is the holiday month for me. Not only do I get Labor Day on the first Monday of the month like everybody else, I also get Native American Day on the fourth Friday. I work as a...
by Christine | May 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
A few years ago, a group of my musical buddies and I were asked to provide live music for a fiftieth anniversary celebration which was to be held on New Years Eve down at Lake Havasu. Since we are Snowbirds and were headed there for the winter months anyway, we agreed...
by Christine | May 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
You’ve heard it. You’ve listened to it many times. You like it. You love it. You’ve tried to sing it. You did sing it. You memorized it. That’s right. The catchy song penned and sung by Tim O’Brien with Hot Rize, “Nellie Kane.”“What?” Some of you may say. You don’t...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
A couple of years ago I read an article that cited research from MIT suggesting that “human brains don’t just recognize music – our evolution has actually produced a dedicated neural circuit for it.” The researchers were excited about how continued studies might...
