Someone recently suggested to me that bluegrass music is every bit as violent as uncensored hip hop, especially towards women, and that bluegrass recordings should have parental warning stickers on them. I replied that I thought that was ridiculous. How
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In which you take our irregular mid-summer quiz
Sometimes late at night, in a fit of writer’s insecurity, I fear that almost no one reads this column, or if they do, they’re just skimming it without retaining any of its valuable information. This in turn leads me to
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Track Premiere – Who You Want Me To Be from Chris Jones
We have a busy Friday in store, with new music to share from three popular bluegrass artists. First up is Chris Jones & The Night Drivers with a new single, Who You Want Me To Be, written by Jones and his new
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Ernest Krankenbett’s rules for show biz cancellations
Greetings from Scotland! I’ve been on a short music tour/family vacation here and in Ireland, and I’m now getting set to fly to Chicago in the morning. I was the only driver among us willing and able to drive a
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I’m anxious, and lonesome too!
A while back, I wrote a two-part series on bluegrass dream analysis. Since that time, for whatever reason, I’ve had almost no bluegrass-related dreams. Perhaps I had gotten them out of my system. In the last year, most of my
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41-year old divorced female seeks male, 38-50, for love, friendship and music
As someone who landed his first full time bluegrass employment thanks to a classified ad, I continue to take an interest in this kind of advertising. Not to be voyeuristic, but the personals section has always been pretty interesting, too;
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Verse and Chorus – one from column A, one from column B
While in Nashville this week, i was listening to a songwriter being interviewed on the radio, and he confessed that he relies heavily on his smartphone for recording and storing song ideas. He said he didn’t know what he’d do
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Unlikely bluegrass pairings up for 2019
It’s IBMA Awards voting season, and some changes in the process have already been announced for 2019 by the IBMA board of directors. Most are minor procedural changes that may not be terribly interesting to most members (they weren’t even
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Hey… that’s my song, or You didn’t write that
I read an interesting tale of the music business recently, in which an Edmonton music student and songwriter, Connor Shaw, claimed that a song he wrote was the basis for a current number one song by country artist Jason Aldean,
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Bend In The Road video from Chris Jones
Mountain Home Music Company is set to release a new song from Chris Jones & The Night Drivers this Friday, and offer a sneak peek this morning with a music video. The song, Bend In The Road, is vintage Jones, sparse