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Federal Oversight Of Language in Songs
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 [...]
Bluegrass Weather Report for January 18, 2013
Today’s Bluegrass Weather Report runs from sunny California all the way down to the Bahamas, which beats the heck out of the cold, snowy weather we have here in the Blue Ridge. In fact, our Special Bluegrass Correspondent was snowed in, stuck in a hotel [...]
Blue Yodel #58 – Holiday Poem 2012
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, [...]
Blue Yodel #57 – A Single Candle
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 [...]
Blue Yodel #56 – Mr. Blue Grass Smarty Pants
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 [...]
Blue Yodel #55 – The Last Yellow Rose
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 [...]
Danny Paisley talks Road Into Town
Patuxent Music has put together a short video with studio footage and interview clips with Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass as they were recording their latest album. The video is set to the title track, The Road Into Town, a coal-mining-country song by Chris [...]
Blue Yodel $54 – Bluegrass Tuesday Shopping Starts Today!
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 [...]
Blue Yodel #53 – Dictionary of Bluegrass Slang
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 [...]
Blue Yodel #52 – White House Blues
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 [...]
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