Opinion / Humor

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Hey good morning Chief! We're all out here with coffee and donuts, looking at the buds on the apple and dogwood trees, and reminiscing. This sure feels like the official kickoff to bluegrass festival season to us. We've been swapping

Filling in on two different SiriusXM channels all this week has left me busier than usual, at least by COVID-era standards, so I offer this encore presentation (shameless rerun) of one I wrote a couple of years ago about bluegrass

Good morning Chief! Wow, how about those storms huh? Made me think we were heading back to 2010 and the big flood here in Music City. Not to worry though, Larry just got the pontoons on the bus (which we've

We're all well aware at this point of all we've been missing—in some cases starving for—during the year-long and counting COVID-19 pandemic. We miss bluegrass festivals, needless to say. Professional touring musicians miss at least some aspects of the road,

Good morning Chief! Well the bus is packed with all the usual suspects and we're ready to roll. Today it looks like we're heading back to 1996 and Bobby's River Bend Festival. Also, one of your fans is asking about

When COVID relief has been debated in the past year, there has been some concern in congress that the government might be creating an incentive not to work by paying people too much while they're idle. For now we’ll just

Hi Sonny: I think the year was 1995 or '96 and you were playing a carnival in Clear Springs, MD, and the rain interrupted your show for some time and you, Bobby, and the band went to your bus parked just

If you've attended the IBMA World of Bluegrass and registered for the conference, the organization hereby thanks you for not being a freeloader. No, what I really started to say was that if you've registered for the conference and thereby

Howdy folks! Time for this week’s Question and Answer show! Hyar we go….. S =========== Sonny, A hundred years from now, a young person will be drawn to the sound of bluegrass music, and they will hear that inner voice that tells them "you