Author: Chris Jones

For your consideration: I might as well warn you that I'll be opening all correspondence this way for the next two weeks. It has a little more zip to it than, "To Whom it May Concern," anyway. I'm also going to

I'm traveling today, so this is actually a rerun from years gone by. Since the subject is taxes for musicians, though, you'll find it has a certain timeless quality, because nothing else gives quite the sense of deja vu as

We sometimes don't like to think of it this way, but we live in a fiercely competitive and ever-changing business, with all of us searching for ways to offer something unique, and to find something that will give our musical

I never thought I'd find myself discussing video games in this space; I'm really more of a pinball guy, which I like to think of as an acoustic video game that you can set a drink on. Still, there's been

We in the bluegrass music community have our own vocabulary, like referring to the banjo as "the five," an instrumental solo as a "break," a professional bluegrass income as "a living," etc. I think we could all still stand to

Do you have a big wedding anniversary coming up? When we celebrated our 30th, I decided to consult the list of year or milestone-appropriate gifts as a guide for my gift (the 60th anniversary gift, by the way, is an

I don't know if you’re familiar with the song made popular by Dobie Gray in 1973 called Drift Away, but it's a song that's had enduring appeal. I personally have always been a huge fan of the Dobie Gray version.

Do you ever play the name games? I'm referring to the cute methods of generating your own alternate name for a specific occupation. For example, you can arrive at your stage name by combining your middle name with the name

We're all adjusting to a world in which recordings and other music projects are being funded in new ways. Even established artists recording for established record labels are now using fan-driven funding campaigns to finance their work. This can either

This Valentine's Day, you might have the opportunity to take the one you love (or at least the one you don't mind too much) out to dinner, or to a movie. In other words, you might actually be going out somewhere