by Christine | Jan 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
Too often we have been judged, ostracized, shunned, talked about, looked down upon, and ridiculed. And with the recent courtship, embracing, and wedding of the CBA to the LGBTQ community, I feel that it is high-time to step forward and bring a new issue to the...
by Christine | Jun 10, 2017 | Welcome Column
It came with them. They brought it with them. The came from “across the pond,” and they and it were aboard the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. But those three ships did not know it, and they did not know it, but it knew it. The whole thing started...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2019 | Welcome Column
It’s June in the year 2020. It’s 2 AM in the morning, Sunday, Grass Valley, California, at the Nevada County Fairground’s CBA “Bluegrass Village.” A large group of bluegrass jammers has gathered under the tall, stately pine trees. Yes,...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2017 | Welcome Column
Recently I saw a rerun of a 2013 PBS TV show documenting the life and times of Jimi Hendrix, the famous electric guitar player and singer. One of the things that came out in this documentary is that Jimi almost always had a guitar with him, wherever he went. Besides...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2017 | Welcome Column
Hey mandophiles, this column may be of more interest to you than to non-believers. But what the heck, there are often things of interest to those who are not interested until they dive in and get some kind of interest out of what they think is not interesting....
by Christine | Jan 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
1. Take out a second mortgage on my house, and buy a 1937 Gibson Flathead Five-String Banjo.2. Take out a third mortgage on my house and buy a 1937 Martin Dreadnought Guitar.3. Sell my house and buy a Feb. 18th, 1924 Gibson F5 Lloyd Loar signed mandolin.4. Form...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2019 | Welcome Column
You can’t. You can’t tell. You can’t tell just by looking. Whether it’s musical instruments or people, it’s the same thing. Musical instruments look different. People look different. They both are different colors, and different shades of...
by Christine | Dec 8, 2018 | Welcome Column
Back in 1970 when I was attending an institute of higher learning in Chico, California, intermittent trips to Bidwell Park were a requirement for peace-of-mind and sanity. Bidwell Park, smack dab in the middle of town, where the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood was...
by Christine | Feb 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
Tom T. Hall wrote, “Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money.” I have a hunch Tom made a bundle off of that song, and got more money than he had before he wrote it.Okay, so you blink your eyes a few times, and what seems like suddenly you...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2018 | Welcome Column
As most of you know, the next CBA Campout will be held October 15 through the 21, 2018, at the Lodi Fairgrounds. While at one of these previous events the thought occurred to me that these “campouts” should really be called “jampouts,” because...
