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Author: Chris Jones

  • From The Side of the Road… bring back the Bluegrass Pentathlon!

    August 3, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    The International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass (and I should inform you that that's the last time, possibly in my entire life, that I'm going to be writing that out in longhand) takes place annually in late September/early October.

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  • From The Side of the Road… let’s hear from Mr. Bluegrass Manners

    July 20, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    We haven't checked in with Mr. Bluegrass Manners for a while. It turns out he's been out on the festival circuit, spreading the gospel of good bluegrass etiquette. He's been visiting jam sessions, politely asking second bass players to go

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  • From The Side of the Road… verbing in the world of bluegrass

    July 13, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    As you may have noticed we live in a world of evolving language. The prevalence of texting has certainly been a big influence, as we seek more and more concise ways to express ourselves (when an appropriate emoji isn't available

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  • From The Side of the Road… eat all the snacks

    July 6, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    Are you usually relegated to the status of opening act? Do you find yourself longing to be the closer? On the other side of the equation, are you a headlining act wishing you could go backwards in time and stature

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  • From The Side of the Road… Bluegrass superstitions

    June 29, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    We live in a world full of superstition. Perhaps this is the time to cue the drums to kick off that Stevie Wonder song, unless you object to drums, in which case cue the drum mounted on the bass and

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  • From The Side of the Road… two sides of the recording contract coin

    June 22, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    Last week, we took a general, possibly oversimplified look at recording contracts as they relate to bluegrass artists today. This week, I thought we'd take a look at two hypothetical contracts, one drafted exactly how some record labels wish contracts would

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  • From The Side of the Road… a primer on bluegrass recording contracts

    June 15, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    Recording contracts can be problematic for all parties involved, especially now when people have stopped, you know, actually paying for music. It's been a longtime complaint of recording artists that the rules of contracts inevitably favor the record labels and not

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  • From The Side of the Road… vague promo is a coming thing

    June 8, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    Last week we gave some examples of how bluegrass bands' promotional material might read if we took out all the usual flowery and exciting adjectives and replaced them with one-sentence, blunt, "just the facts, ma'am" descriptions, e.g. "Five old guys

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  • From The Side of the Road… a new way to think about band promo

    June 1, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    When playing a show in Chicago recently, I stopped to eat at a Greek restaurant on the northwest side of the city and I ordered something pretty standard: the gyro plate, and it was an excellent choice. When it arrived,

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  • From The Side of the Road… the back story of bluegrass villains told at last

    May 25, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    I've noticed within the entertainment industry a growing interest in the back stories of the villains of some of our legends, fairy tales, and classic superhero stories. Having milked most of the superhero and Grimm's fairy tale-based franchises dry, all

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