Last week’s millennial bluegrass songs generated a lot of suggestions for additions. Many were good ones, and I’ll include some here. One reader pointed out what I already knew: my list is incomplete without a song title that makes some reference
Chris Jones
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Millennial adaptations of bluegrass standards
We love to make fun of millennials; you know, with their selfies of their own wedding proposals, their own baptisms, and their own gas station fill-ups; their inability to perform labor-intensive tasks like coal mining or voting. But of course
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Did you see what the dog did?
I’m neck deep in studio work in North Carolina this week, so here’s one that first ran right before Thanksgiving two years ago, and right after the 2016 election. As you’ve noticed, the political climate may actually be more tense
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Honey, who’s that one about? or a songwriters’ dilemma
Let’s face it: it’s difficult to be married to a musician, but it may be most difficult of all to be married to a songwriter. As the spouse, you end up hearing songs about bad relationships, break-ups, leaving on the
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What will they write on your headstone?
Perhaps it was the recent passing of Halloween, or perhaps the post-music-camp mental fatigue (I just returned from the wonderful Walker Creek Music Camp in California), but my mind has suddenly turned to the macabre. More specifically I’ve begun thinking about
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Introducing BluegrassMatch.com
There’s been an exciting new development at Bluegrass Today. I think it’s even bigger than the recent breaking of the personnel change story that rocked the industry: “Brian Hampton to Kryspy Rydge.” It may even be bigger than the installation
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Bluegrass songs about bluegrass
In today’s competitive environment it’s hard to break through the barriers when it comes to airplay and sales. Some choose the aggressive marketing approach to overcome this: frequent calls to program directors, in-person confrontation, and in extreme cases, kidnapping of DJs
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Studio-inspired haiku to while the time away
Greetings from the studio! When recording a record, CD, or long play album (a term we need to revive), it’s pretty intense, and I rarely have time to come up with anything funny for this weekly column. Or even anything
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Bluegrass recording budgets make grown men cry
Things are very busy this week as the Night Drivers and I prepare to head back into the studio. I’m working on charts and trying to come up with a rhyme for “carrageenan” to finish up a song. This reminded
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Let’s give them something to talk about
It was an outstanding IBMA World of Bluegrass this year, in my opinion (as opposed to the opinion of some person ranting on a street corner in Raleigh), and yes, I was awake for a great deal of it. The