
Ramblings On My Mind August 2020
Ramblings on My Mind August 2020
Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
It has been a strange long year with seemingly no end in sight at this point as to when we’ll be able to visit our favorite venues to enjoy live blues, or…

Ramblings On My Mind July 2020
Ramblings On My Mind July 2020
Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
Typically, we make a point not to bring politics into the organization’s stances, but this past month has brought about a divisiveness that we must address.…

Ramblings on My Mind -June 2020
Ramblings On My Mind
Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
As our world continues to be on hold due to the pandemic, we watch over and over again as our dreams of nice summer weather with gatherings to enjoy music and friends…

Ramblings On My Mind – May 2020
Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
In this time of pandemic, like everybody else, I found myself confined to either home, or in my case also spending long hours at work, listening to a lot of music. Whether live online broadcasts…

Ramblings on My Mind – April 2020
by Greg Johnson,
Cascade Blues Association President
Making the decision to cancel our membership meeting for April was truly tough. In the 19 years that I have been president, we have only had to cancel twice before. Both of those dates were…

Ramblings On My Mind – Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
The Cascade Blues Association has been involved sending bands to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis for twenty years. We have had a lot of success with acts participating over the years, many pushing forward to the semi-finals since…

Ramblings On My Mind – February 2020
by Greg Johnson,
Cascade Blues Association President
I know it’s February and since I was a month behind last time getting out the top ten list of favorite CDs of 2019, let me do a touch more catching up. We have gone through another election…

Ramblings On My Mind ~ Greg Johnson, CBA President
by Greg Johnson, CBA President
Usually I run this column in December, but following the passing of Steve Pringle I decided to wait for this month to list my choices for favorite albums of the year. This is by no means the say all end all listing…

Ramblings On My Mind December 2019
by Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
These past couple months are just too hard to place my mind around. Too many friends have left this world. But the passing of Steve Pringle was more than that. He may have entertained us and…

Ramblings On My Mind – November
by Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President
The past month has really hit hard and brought a lot into perspective on how precious life can be and how we need to recognize the musicians and people who truly mean something in our lives.…