Author: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road… the AI discussion is back!

AI is the subject everyone is talking about, in fact more than many of us would like. I can’t recall a…

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From The Side of the Road… film concepts with a bluegrass theme

Not to alarm anyone about the passage of time, but the Coen Brothers movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out…

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From The Side of the Road… a really, really important message

Most bluegrass musicians now exist in a digital world we didn’t create, one in which we have to dispense with all…

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From The Side of the Road… how to define “success” in bluegrass

How do we define “success” in the bluegrass music business? We certainly can’t do it by the standards used in the…

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From The Side of the Road… how to be a bluegrass eccentric

Have you ever longed to be a bluegrass eccentric? Sure, you’re a professional bluegrass musician, some of your strait-laced friends with…

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From The Side of the Road… Bluegrass songs about bluegrass

In today’s competitive environment it’s hard to break through the barriers when it comes to airplay and sales. Some choose the…

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From The Side of the Road… should we have a bluegrass draft?

Now that the Super Bowl is over (it is over, right?), serious football fans will turn to the NFL draft scheduled…

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From The Side of the Road… riding in “the bus”

You may recall that last week we started a discussion of band travel options, which are numerous, ranging from private jet…

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From The Side of the Road… from point A to point B

This week we’ve decided to reach deep into the archives to pull out a two-part series from 2013 about band transportation….

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From The Side of the Road… the Hot Rize band naming convention

We return this week to the subject of naming bands. It’s an easy topic to come back to because it’s a…

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