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Chris Jones

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

    May 3, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    Mr. Bluegrass Manners has taken time away from his book tour promoting his new bestseller, Jam Session Offenses, Real and Simulated - Navigating bluegrass etiquette in the age of AI, to take the latest burning bluegrass questions from readers.  As related

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  • From The Side of the Road… cologne for the man who plays bluegrass

    April 26, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    Since it has been established in the advertising world that if you can identify a niche, you can target it, it was probably inevitable that we would one day see the rise of bluegrass men's cologne.  Bluegrass women's fragrances had already

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  • From The Side of the Road… where are they now?

    April 19, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    Last week, after passing along some of the findings in my research into the whereabouts of some familiar characters in bluegrass songs, I received some questions, comments, and suggestions.  The suggestions, which mostly involved where I should go, and what I

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  • From The Side of the Road… the rest of the story, bluegrass song edition

    April 12, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    People always seem interested in where music celebrities, or lesser-known one-hit wonder types, have disappeared to. I seem to recall VH-1, or one of those channels that used to show music videos in the '80s, devoting a whole show to

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  • From The Side of the Road… email shorthand for grassers

    April 5, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    We've all been seeing the ways in which AI technology is already being used to improve our lives, that is before it destroys civilization as we know it about two years from now. As an example of its practical application,

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  • From The Side of the Road… Bill v. Earl, revisited

    March 29, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    For some reason, pandemic nostalgia perhaps, there has been a whole new round of comments about an editorial written by David Morris in Bluegrass Today back in late 2020 about who the real "Father of Bluegrass" is, Bill Monroe or

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  • From The Side of the Road… more bluegrass translations

    March 22, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    Last week I was preoccupied with another side business I have, which is the raising of prize miniature llamas (one of the llamas had gone off her feed and would eat nothing but stir-fried alfalfa pellets, and the whole thing

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  • From The Side of the Road… bluegrass, euphemistically speaking

    March 15, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    People that are new to bluegrass music sometimes need some help in translating our jargon. Hearing that someone is "tearing it up on the five" may sound like ordinary and recognizable information to us, but to the uninitiated, it's not

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  • From The Side of the Road… impress your friends – talk bluegrass!

    March 8, 2023 | by Chris Jones

    I'll admit that, perhaps because of my radio day job, I listen more intently than I should to radio advertising. I'm especially drawn to those featuring contrived conversations: "You mean you really get cash back on every gas purchase?!" "Yes I do." "Wow!

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  • Chris Jones’ From The Side of the Road coming in book form

    March 7, 2023 | by John Lawless

    With the advent of the publication of Chris Jones' 500th column here at Bluegrass Today comes word that a selection of his previous contributions are set to be published in a book. Chris is working now on selecting which ones

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