Author: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road…some more stage MC basics

Last week I tried to break on-stage MC work down to basics to make the mission seem less daunting for anyone…

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From The Side of the Road… no, you do it – I don’t want to do it

Something that you or your band must eventually face (besides your sound check and your non-existent retirement plan), is that at…

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From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners tells the truth

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has taken time away from his book tour promoting his new bestseller, Jam Session Offenses, Real and Simulated…

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From The Side of the Road… cologne for the man who plays bluegrass

Since it has been established in the advertising world that if you can identify a niche, you can target it, it…

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From The Side of the Road… where are they now?

Last week, after passing along some of the findings in my research into the whereabouts of some familiar characters in bluegrass…

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From The Side of the Road… the rest of the story, bluegrass song edition

People always seem interested in where music celebrities, or lesser-known one-hit wonder types, have disappeared to. I seem to recall VH-1,…

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From The Side of the Road… email shorthand for grassers

We’ve all been seeing the ways in which AI technology is already being used to improve our lives, that is before…

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From The Side of the Road… Bill v. Earl, revisited

For some reason, pandemic nostalgia perhaps, there has been a whole new round of comments about an editorial written by David…

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From The Side of the Road… more bluegrass translations

Last week I was preoccupied with another side business I have, which is the raising of prize miniature llamas (one of…

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From The Side of the Road… bluegrass, euphemistically speaking

People that are new to bluegrass music sometimes need some help in translating our jargon. Hearing that someone is “tearing it…

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