by Christine | Apr 16, 2010 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Ted Lehmann Friday, April 16, 2010 What makes some bands work while others fall to the sidelines or putter along getting dates and making some money, but never rising to the top? Why is it that certain groups with impeccable musical...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2020 | Welcome Column
In 1977 a good friend and I drove up to Grass Valley on Fathers Day weekend to what we THOUGHT was a blues festival. Turned out to be a bluegrass music festival and that mistake turned out to be far and away the most profound misunderstanding of my life. It simply...
by Christine | Jan 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
Today’s “Welcome Column” is dedicated to the “Great 48.” This is the California Bluegrass Association’s (CBA) smaller version of “inside grass” venues like the Wintergrass Festival up in Washington State, or the IBMA gathering last year in North Carolina; all within...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s Portable I spent a weekend at a cabin in Lake Tahoe, and the place we stayed had a Martin guitar in it. It was there when we arrived (although we brought several other guitars). We played in the living room, we played in the kitchen and we played on the porch. I...
by Christine | Jan 10, 2016 | Welcome Column
Hello folks, I’m at the Great 48 in Bakersfield, where at 3 AM I can still hear music. Here’s my post from last year about training to Bakersfield. I decided to drive this year but I saw some folks just getting in off the train the other day and they had...
by Christine | Jan 9, 2019 | Welcome Column
6: Be Glad You’re Not in Oildale Now, I know this isn’t fair. After all, Oildale produced Merle Haggard, and it’s hard to top that. But Bakersfield has the brighter lights and a charm that neatly combines big-city flash with small town charm! And with taverns...
by Christine | Dec 27, 2017 | Welcome Column
7: Be Glad You’re Not in Oildale Now, I know this isn’t fair. After all, Oildale produced Merle Haggard, and it’s hard to top that. But Bakersfield has the brighter lights and a charm that neatly combines big-city flash with small town charm! And with taverns with...
by Christine | Jul 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
During the past few years we’ve all watched too many beloved musicians pass from the music scene. Their illnesses and subsequent loss has cost many of us in grief, especially when friends die too soon, struck down by illness that could have been prevented or...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round chilluns – Uncle Bruce is gonna relate some heavy life wisdom on you here in the next 500 words or so. I’ve had a pretty interesting last couple of weeks, and it caused me to ponder some of the vagaries of the human condition. While we spend a lot of...
by Christine | Jul 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
Some jams, we play what we know with our best friends, and it’s like picking up a great comfortable conversation that may have began years – decades! – ago. How cool it that? It’s a magical thing, really! But some jams aren’t so comfortable – you...
