Author: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road… are you smarter than Facebook?

Ever since Facebook came on the scene, making people in vast portions of the world up to 58% less productive in…

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From The Side of the Road… remembering John Rice

Special Consensus @ 1982: Paul Kramer, Chris Jones, Greg Cahill, John Rice – photo © Jim Polanski This is normally a…

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From The Side of the Road… Mad Libs, bluegrass style

It’s hard to believe that the first day of July is already here (Happy Canada Day, by the way). In addition…

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From The Side of the Road… Yes, I’m positive!

In many parts of our society, we place a high value on being positive. “Just stay positive,” we’re often told, even…

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From The Side of the Road… accentuate the negative

It’s been a while since we discussed the IBMA breakaway organization, the ABMA, which stands for the Argumentative Bluegrass Music Association….

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From The Side of the Road… not mashed but Chopped

I’m late to this game, I realize, but I’ve finally taken notice of the Food Network’s Chopped show. Sure I had…

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From The Side of the Road…Lyrics? What lyrics?

I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a theory that a sizable chunk of modern bluegrass fans aren’t listening to the…

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From The Side of the Road… the dreaded band photo shoot

Quite some time ago (I think it was just after the breakup of Flatt & Scruggs and the Beatles) I made…

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From The Side of the Road… Bluegrass haiku, the sequel

It seems like so long ago now, back before the time change, even, that I wrote a little article here on…

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From The Side of the Road… AI writes bluegrass humor

I apologize that I’m not able to bring you a new column this week. Rather than get ChatGPT to write one,…

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