Author: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back on the job!

Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back at last. I was actually starting to worry about him. It turns out after the success…

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From The Side of the Road… predictive text as publicist?

Just a note that this column was written well before the advent of AI, and to clarify again, I’m referring to…

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From The Side of the Road… proper pronunciation of bluegrass maladies

Are you possibly old enough to remember cigarette advertising on TV and radio? If so, you probably also still refer to…

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From The Side of the Road… so – are you into verbing?

As you may have noticed, we live in a world of constantly evolving language. The prevalence of texting has certainly been…

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From The Side of the Road… It’s here – the 2026 Bluegrass Quiz!

Happy Bluegrass New Year! The first column of the year is almost always devoted to the annual Bluegrass Quiz. This is…

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From The Side of the Road… do your children still believe in Bill Monroe?

Happy post-Christmas/pre-NewYear. I’m spending the holidays in a somewhat remote area of western Canada, where it was necessary to write and…

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From The Side of the Road… Scrooge and the Christmas ghost

Last year around this time, we ran a rerun of my reimagined Stave Two of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in…

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From The Side of the Road… Christmas romance is in the air!

As promised last week, here are this year’s Hallmark bluegrass Christmas movie plot proposals. As in past years, these are cast…

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From The Side of the Road… It’s Hallmark Christmas time!

We’ve all been waiting months for the Hallmark Christmas movies to start (okay, maybe eliminate “all” from that opening phrase), which…

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From The Side of the Road… start some new traditions at Christmas this year

There are lots of things we need to be careful of in the holiday season, like making sure we remember where…

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