http://bluegrasstoday.com Your independent source of bluegrass news. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:57:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/federal-oversight-of-language-in-songs/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/federal-oversight-of-language-in-songs/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:35:19 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=51861 Greetings Bluegrass Fans, Once again I am forced to remove the dust cover from my Underwood typewriter and report to you a plot so heinous that it caused me to look up the word heinous. First, let me say that I am enjoying my bluegrass [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/federal-oversight-of-language-in-songs/feed/ 6 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-58-holiday-poem-2012/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-58-holiday-poem-2012/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:26:51 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=50186 Dear friends upon the Internet, And Facebook pals I’ve never met, Let us pause in late December To gather ‘round and remember, The year that was two-thousand-twelve, (Old arguments for now let’s shelve). I’d have to say, if I were pressed, Twas not the worst, [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-58-holiday-poem-2012/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-57-a-single-candle/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-57-a-single-candle/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:00:06 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=50061 Death has crept near and far this week in unspeakable horror, to those we know and to those we hear about. Words are usually my comfort, but this past week has reminded me of the inadequacy of words to express the deepest sadness—the loss of [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-57-a-single-candle/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-56-mr-blue-grass-smarty-pants/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-56-mr-blue-grass-smarty-pants/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:45:36 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49899 Our guest smarty pants this week has been called the Father of Bluegrass History—okay, I just called him that, but it’s apt. Neil Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a chair formerly held by Gandalf. Neil is also one of [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-56-mr-blue-grass-smarty-pants/feed/ 5 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-55-the-last-yellow-rose/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-55-the-last-yellow-rose/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:27:58 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49772 This has been a week that I know a lot of you have faced already: having to put a loved one into hospice care and then watch as—in my case, my mother—slowly, quickly passed away from us. Alpha Mell Stanley Stuart was 98 years old [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-55-the-last-yellow-rose/feed/ 1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-54-bluegrass-tuesday-shopping-starts-today/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-54-bluegrass-tuesday-shopping-starts-today/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:59:25 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49632 Today is Cyber Monday, the day that robots everywhere break Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and take over the world. But while that’s happening, let’s shop! You may have already done your shopping on Black Friday (which started this year on Thanksgiving Thursday) or [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-54-bluegrass-tuesday-shopping-starts-today/feed/ 3 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-53-dictionary-of-bluegrass-slang/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-53-dictionary-of-bluegrass-slang/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:12:07 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49530 This is Blue Yodel #53, the same number of times that local bluegrass band The Remington Riders of Free Dirt, Texas, played their signature song, Remington Ride, at a wedding on November 19, 1995. It was band policy to play the tune whenever someone requested [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-53-dictionary-of-bluegrass-slang/feed/ 8 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-52-white-house-blues/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-52-white-house-blues/#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:59:37 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49215 This is Blue Yodel #52, the same as the world-record number of strings broken by the band High Wind Advisory the night of December 5, 1983 in Delphi Plains, Ohio, when they attempted a bluegrass version of the rock opera, Tommy. I bring up Ohio only [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-52-white-house-blues/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-51-bluegrass-bluesman/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-51-bluegrass-bluesman/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:52:43 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=49096 I spent yesterday with Josh Graves by reading Bluegrass Bluesman: Josh Graves A Memoir, a collection of transcribed interviews given in the ’90s by the resonator guitar master. Expertly edited by Fred Bartenstein with help from a lot of good folks, which I’ll come back [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-51-bluegrass-bluesman/feed/ 2 http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-50-product-placement-in-bluegrass/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-50-product-placement-in-bluegrass/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:23:42 +0000 Chris Stuart http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=48975 One of the words people use in describing bluegrass is integrity. Even accounting for a few posers, let’s say on the integrity scale of 100, bluegrass is a 95. Before we start celebrating, let’s consider that on the income scale bluegrass is a 15. These [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/blue-yodel-50-product-placement-in-bluegrass/feed/ 8