Author: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road… concerns about IBMA voting changes

Hello from North Carolina. This week I’m in the studio recording some Christmas songs with the Night Drivers. Between writing charts,…

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From The Side of the Road… a dumb column sent by my iPhone

Out of necessity, I’m afraid this column is being composed on a less-than-current iPhone (I received no compensation from Apple for…

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From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners back from COVID

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been away from this column for a while. Since things began opening up in the United States…

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From The Side of the Road… time for another hit bluegrass movie

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… word police and other conspiracies exposed!

Chris Jones blow the lid off deep conspiracies in bluegrass music, from IBMA to Flatt & Scruggs, in this explosive video.

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From The Side of the Road… and the first noun to be retired is…

Last week, I gave all publicists and artists who write their own bios in third person fair warning that in addition…

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From The Side of the Road… 2021 IBMA adjective removal announcement

Several years ago I wrote a column about the ceremonial retirement of adjectives at the IBMA World of Bluegrass. This is…

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From The Side of the Road… it’s raining bluegrass email scams!

When it rains email scams, it pours. The same is true for bogus voice mails, fake text messages, and phony faxes…

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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…

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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)…

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