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  • From The Side of the Road… death at a bluegrass festival

    October 16, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    This column was mostly written in September of 2021, after playing our first festival in front of real people since the start of the pandemic. It was at Thomas Point Beach. It felt so good to be back on a non-virtual

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  • From The Side of the Road… simplified sloganeering

    October 9, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    We're in an election year, and if you're just now hearing about that, I'd like to hang out wherever you do, maybe forever. What this means here in October of 2024 is that absolutely nothing about anything will be even

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  • From The Side of the Road… band contracts 101

    October 2, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    I'm taking this week off to recover from the stress of taking the previous week off. Therefore, I've asked John Lawless to rerun a slightly edited version (I changed one "the" to an "a") of a column I wrote a

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  • Goodbye Raleigh – World of Bluegrass bids farewell to Raleigh, NC

    September 28, 2024 | by David Morris

    Jamming in the shadow of the Raleigh sign at World of Bluegrass '24 - photo © Jeromie Stephens When IBMA's World of Bluegrass pulled out of Nashville in 2012, I spent most of the 12-hour drive home, and many of the

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  • From The Side of the Road… returning to “normalcy” after WOB

    September 27, 2024 | by Chris Jones

     Dateline: Raleigh. That’s the last time I'm likely to be writing that, at least at the end of September. I think we're all feeling a few pangs of sadness about the IBMA World of Bluegrass leaving here, but there's also

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  • From The Side of the Road… healthy training for World of Bluegrass

    September 18, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    The very first column I wrote for Bluegrass Today was about maintaining your health during the stressful IBMA World of Bluegrass week. Most of the advice I gave was either discredited or just laughed at, and not for the right

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  • From The Side of the Road… What if I’m wrong?

    September 11, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    Is the rerunning of a column about bluegrass conspiracy theories a blatant attempt to cross-promote our new single, What if You're Wrong? Perhaps, and there's a whole conspiracy theory in itself with some pretty solid evidence to support it. Esquire magazine

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  • From The Side of the Road… A.I. and the bluegrass industry

    September 4, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    It's been a while since I've done a video column, but the time felt right. I promise it's not just because the letter "B" doesn't seem to be working right on my keyboard, although that certainly is a factor. Have

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  • From The Side of the Road… bluegrass plagiarism over the years

    August 28, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    I read an interesting tale of the music business recently, in which an Edmonton music student and songwriter, Connor Shaw, claimed that a song he wrote was the basis for a recent number one song by country artist Jason Aldean,

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  • From The Side of the Road… movie tag lines for bluegrass songs, Part Deux

    August 21, 2024 | by Chris Jones

    Last week we discussed movie taglines, those one or two sentence teasers meant to entice us to rush out (or in) to see the film. As I said, they can range from the overly sparse: "An Event" (Earthquake), to the plot-spoiling

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