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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From The Side of the Road… examining movie tag lines
Before a new movie rolls out, motion picture studios all have the challenging task of boiling down each release into a pithy, one sentence tagline for the movie poster and other advertising. The idea is to both summarize the concept
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From The Side of the Road… refreshing vintage song themes
While trying to put songs together for the annual Mother's Day edition of my classic bluegrass show on SiriusXM known as Truegrass, I lamented once again the shortage of songs in our music about mothers who are still living. Sure,
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From The Side of the Road… Mr. Bluegrass Manners delivers an exception
He's back! Mr. Bluegrass Manners appears to be thriving well in the pandemic environment, or at least thriving as well as any other bluegrass etiquette specialist is right now. Recently I had to delicately point out to him that it
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From The Side of the Road… the threat of an aggressive song pitcher
Greetings from the studio! My band and I are in the studio all this week and time has run short, what with oboe overdubs and getting basic rhythm tracks for our much-requested medley of No School Bus in Heaven and
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From The Side of the Road… on conspiracy theories, real or imagined
Well it's been an interesting week for reader/viewer commentary. In this time of heightened sensitivity, and when almost everything is squeezed into a political "us vs. them" mold, I knew some pushback was inevitable. Is it fair game to satirize conspiracy theorists,
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From The Side of the Road… what they aren’t telling you about bluegrass music
Watch this before it gets taken down. The truth is out there!
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From The Side of the Road… a discipline of collective bluegrass nouns
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
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From The Side of the Road… what we’ll miss when COVID is through
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,
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From The Side of the Road… can you not be in two places at one time?
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