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  • From The Side of the Road… can there be positive bluegrass?

    August 31, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    In many parts of our society, we place a high value on being positive. "Just stay positive," we're often told, even if we've just received the news that we have three months to live. Some countries are more positive than others,

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  • From The Side of the Road… bluegrass haiku for publicists

    August 24, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    We haven't done any bluegrass haiku in a while. I'm starting to get complaints about this from the Iowa Corndog Queen who is also president of the Bluegrass Haiku Appreciators of Iowa and Parts of Northern Missouri (or BHAOIPONM, pronounced

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  • From The Side of the Road… Jones’ Rules of Jamming

    August 17, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    This is a column written the year the Night Drivers and I taught at the MBOTMA festival's Jam Camp in Minnesota. I thought it might be fitting here in the height of the outdoor jamming season (officially May 15 to

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  • From The Side of the Road… Disney grassups for a summer’s day

    August 10, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    A friend of mine suggested once that this column is like the "Buzzfeed of bluegrass." He assured me it was a compliment, but I wasn't so sure. Concerned, I looked back through the archives and found a generous helping of

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  • From The Side of the Road… bring back the Bluegrass Pentathlon!

    August 3, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    The International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass (and I should inform you that that's the last time, possibly in my entire life, that I'm going to be writing that out in longhand) takes place annually in late September/early October.

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  • From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners encore

    July 27, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mr. Bluegrass Manners is offering an unprecedented "two-fer" (even though he advises me that the term "two-fer" is not considered ideal bluegrass manners, though preferable, he says, to "two-for"). The reason for this MBM encore is the flood of questions

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  • From The Side of the Road… let’s hear from Mr. Bluegrass Manners

    July 20, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    We haven't checked in with Mr. Bluegrass Manners for a while. It turns out he's been out on the festival circuit, spreading the gospel of good bluegrass etiquette. He's been visiting jam sessions, politely asking second bass players to go

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  • From The Side of the Road… verbing in the world of bluegrass

    July 13, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    As you may have noticed we live in a world of evolving language. The prevalence of texting has certainly been a big influence, as we seek more and more concise ways to express ourselves (when an appropriate emoji isn't available

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  • From The Side of the Road… eat all the snacks

    July 6, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    Are you usually relegated to the status of opening act? Do you find yourself longing to be the closer? On the other side of the equation, are you a headlining act wishing you could go backwards in time and stature

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  • From The Side of the Road… Bluegrass superstitions

    June 29, 2022 | by Chris Jones

    We live in a world full of superstition. Perhaps this is the time to cue the drums to kick off that Stevie Wonder song, unless you object to drums, in which case cue the drum mounted on the bass and

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