When it rains email scams, it pours. The same is true for bogus voice mails, fake text messages, and phony faxes (in the '90s). Most of my current scammy voice mails are about expiring warranties. I'm a terrible target for this
Author: Chris Jones
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From The Side of the Road… time off goals versus reality
Last December, we took a look at some of the ways that bluegrass musicians' lofty pandemic goals had run smack into the brick wall of reality. For many of us, the last 18 months have at times felt like a
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From The Side of the Road… movie tag lines for bluegrass standards
Last week we discussed movie taglines, those one or two sentence teasers meant to entice us to rush out (or in) to see the film. As I said, they can range from the overly sparse: "An Event" (Earthquake), to the plot-spoiling
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From The Side of the Road… examining movie tag lines
Before a new movie rolls out, motion picture studios all have the challenging task of boiling down each release into a pithy, one sentence tagline for the movie poster and other advertising. The idea is to both summarize the concept
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From The Side of the Road… refreshing vintage song themes
While trying to put songs together for the annual Mother's Day edition of my classic bluegrass show on SiriusXM known as Truegrass, I lamented once again the shortage of songs in our music about mothers who are still living. Sure,
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From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners delivers an exception
He's back! Mr. Bluegrass Manners appears to be thriving well in the pandemic environment, or at least thriving as well as any other bluegrass etiquette specialist is right now. Recently I had to delicately point out to him that it
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From The Side of the Road… the threat of an aggressive song pitcher
Greetings from the studio! My band and I are in the studio all this week and time has run short, what with oboe overdubs and getting basic rhythm tracks for our much-requested medley of No School Bus in Heaven and
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From The Side of the Road… on conspiracy theories, real or imagined
Well it's been an interesting week for reader/viewer commentary. In this time of heightened sensitivity, and when almost everything is squeezed into a political "us vs. them" mold, I knew some pushback was inevitable. Is it fair game to satirize conspiracy theorists,
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From The Side of the Road… what they aren’t telling you about bluegrass music
Watch this before it gets taken down. The truth is out there!
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From The Side of the Road… a discipline of collective bluegrass nouns
Filling in on two different SiriusXM channels all this week has left me busier than usual, at least by COVID-era standards, so I offer this encore presentation (shameless rerun) of one I wrote a couple of years ago about bluegrass