by Christine | Apr 7, 2019 | Welcome Column
Prior to moving back to the Sacramento area in the early 90’s. I lived in North San Diego County for 20 years. In-between plumbing jobs and band gigs 5 to 7 nights a week I managed to get in a lot of time at and in the ocean. Old friends were very good surfers. I was...
by Christine | Feb 12, 2009 | Welcome Column
This would be the first full day that I am 67 years old; yesterday was my birthday. Yesterday was Thomas Edison’s birthday, too. I used to wonder if Thomas and I had some astrological link, but then somebody else invented the mp3 player and the compact fluorescent...
by Christine | Jul 25, 2010 | Welcome Column
At a recent barbecue/bluegrass jam, I was visiting with Marcos Alvira. We were discussing the joys of being a homeowner. I was telling him about all the work we need to do on our house; replace windows, remodel kitchen, refinish wood floors…and the list went on and...
by Christine | Dec 30, 2019 | Welcome Column
It’s a warm winter’s night in the Ozarks. It should be cold. But it isn’t. It’s right now, or in the future, or in your imagination. A relatively obscure bluegrass festival is happening. It doesn’t even have a name, really, except for one. “THE Bluegrass Festival.”...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
Gather ‘round, children, Uncle Bruce is gonna lay some wisdom on you. What’s that you say? I’m not really your uncle? Well, technically, you’re right. But I AM avuncular (look it up) – and the only guy more avuncular than me is Cliff Compton, and this is my column...
by Christine | Jun 28, 2012 | Welcome Column
If each and every one of us were to set down and ponder the changes in our life over the last 20 or maybe 25 years, I’m sure that we would realize that most of the changes in our life did not follow the plan that we laid out. Such is the case with my life, and...
by Christine | Nov 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
As Christmas, 1959, approached I was a freshman at Contra Costa College in beautiful San Pablo, California. I wanted a guitar for Christmas. Not just any guitar, but a Fender Stratocaster, which, then and now, I considered the most beautiful,...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Jimmy Dale Rimes (rhymes with “dimes”) is a bluegrass musician. An All-American no doubt about it card carrying banjo player; the 5-string banjo (no way would he be caught with a 4 string, Dixieland type, play it in a pizza parlor strumming with a flat-pick kind of...
by Christine | Dec 10, 2014 | Welcome Column
Well, it’s that time of the year again. The Christmas season, also known more by the more secular Holiday Season. Whatever the reason, a lot of good things happen this time of year. By and large, families are together more, and we all – all of us – try to...
by Christine | Nov 15, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: I woke up thinking about Tom Tworek this morning. Since 2008, when we lost him, there’s been a huge turn-over in the CBA membership; many readers this morning won’t recognize Tom’s name, but for certain many will...
