Opinion / Humor

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

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been away from us for a while. He hasn't been idle, however. He's been doing research for an upcoming book with the working title, Why You Gotta Be So Rude? He also recently spoke at an

You may think of people who have chosen bluegrass music as a profession as fearless types who proceed boldly into the future without a care for their material comfort, or family and financial stability. Perhaps you're correct about the financial

Today is a travel day for me as I hop a dog sled to a freight train to another dog sled to a plane to a rental car, eventually to Nashville during SPBGMA weekend. For that reason I offer up

We're into the cold and dark part of the year, which goes along with the quiet part of the touring season. Since it's also a time of reflecting back on the previous business year, I wanted to open on a

Someone recently suggested to me that bluegrass music is every bit as violent as uncensored hip hop, especially towards women, and that bluegrass recordings should have parental warning stickers on them. I replied that I thought that was ridiculous. How

Happy New Year, friends and readers! 2024 is here at last. It's one of those special every four years in the cycle leap years: you know, the ones with the extra day in February, the summer Olympics, and a US

Peter Thompson, noted California bluegrass DJ and former concert organizer, recently e-mailed out a copy of Woody Guthrie's New Years resolutions from 1942, which Woody called "New Years Rulin's." It was a long list, with 33 items on it, and had