With a Bryan Adams love song having made it into the second round of voting in the IBMA Awards, the subject of people paying no attention to the lyrics of bluegrass songs has come up again as a topic. I’ll
Funny stuff
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Ask Sonny Anything… What’s with the glasses?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Mr. Bluegrass Manners returns to collect his check
Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back a lot sooner than usual. Generally he emerges from his hermit-like, yet very polite life at his southern Indiana ranch-style home to answer a few questions, then disappears for months on end, presumably working on
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Ask Sonny Anything… Kentucky Wildcats
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Bluegrass songs about bluegrass – song ideas to get you started
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but bluegrass songs about bluegrass are more popular than ever. I saw at least a couple of them on the IBMA second ballot, and the charts have been full of them. What’s not
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Ask Sonny Anything… Flint Hill Flash?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Check your local listings for time and date
I don’t want to alarm you about the passage of time, or, if I’m honest, I do want to alarm you about the passage of time, because it’s fun: The movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out almost 20
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Ask Sonny Anything… no dancing!
Ask Sonny Anything will be a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine
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Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back!
Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back. We’re not sure where he went, but I have it on good information that wherever he was, he tore pretty heavily into the Bluegrass Today expense account. Now I ask you, was that good manners?
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Ask Sonny Anything… banjo toss at Bean Blossom?
Ask Sonny Anything will be a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine