by Christine | Mar 14, 2019 | Welcome Column
For nine years or so, back in the early 2000’s, I was a regular volunteer at CBA music camp, and I did a couple of Walker Creek Camps as well. There was always a sense of happiness in the air at those camps, and of common purpose — all these people excited...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2019 | Welcome Column
Art has the remarkable quality of being able to affect us in different ways, at different levels. When you see a masterpiece of art in a museum, it’s the main thing you’re looking at and thinking about for a while. You’re soaking it in, and savoring how it makes you...
by Christine | Mar 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
The “performance part” of playing music is a complex developmental process for most people. Any musician will verify that the comfort of one’s own living room is where all the perfect notes are kept. The folk and bluegrass music scene conjures images of dedicated...
by Christine | Jul 31, 2013 | Welcome Column
After reading Sid Lewis’ column yesterday, I got the idea to write about bad gigs. If performing musicians have to suffer through some bad day jobs to pursue their dreams, they also have to endure some awful gigs along the way. But when I thought back, even the worst...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2011 | Welcome Column
For several years running now, I have seen the photos on the CBA website of folks having fun at the Bakersfield Jam (a/k/a The Great 48). Looked like a lot of fun, and I know, from having been to both Supergrass Festivals, that pickin’ in Bakersfield is a lot of fun....
by Christine | May 25, 2017 | Welcome Column
Daily grist. After losing my youngest son and my oldest daughter at ages 27 and 46 respectively who most important lesson in life I learned is this. Never sweat the small stuff. It is all small stuff. JDRhynes I know you’re probably asking...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
A tumbleweed blows across Buck Owens Blvd… Lonely oil pumping stations creak and squeak in vacant lots and front yards …. A broken guitar string lies in a parking lot next to some cigarette butts… Oh, it’s quiet now, but soon this “little” town...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the peace, tranquility and domestic bliss of our little mountain retreat has been shattered by the arrival last Thursday of the dreaded C-PAP (continuous positive airway pressure) Machine to address the recently diagnosed acute...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2018 | Welcome Column
This week, I had a chance to meet up with some friends with whom I played about 20 years ago. I have stayed in closer contact with some than others, but the most recent encounter had more of that old band than I have seen in quite a while. We were called the Road Kill...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
It’s December again and bands are playing musical chairs. In high profile changes, Joey Cox and Carl White have left Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Dan Tyminski, Barry Bales, and Ron Block have returned to Alison Kraus, decimating The Dan Tyminski Band...
