I do my best to keep up with the latest trends in bluegrass music. I like to go beyond the Bluegrass Today headlines about bluegrass artists’ weddings and medical procedures (sometimes taking place on the same day) to try to
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Summertime… and the GPS is queasy
The Memorial Day weekend is sort of a milestone in the year. It’s the unofficial start of summer. The fashion people also tell us it’s now okay to wear white shoes (lime green leisure suit optional). Canada celebrates a long weekend
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And To Think That I Saw It At Bean Blossom
I wanted to begin this week by answering some concerns raised in the comments section and elsewhere about some of the contents of my columns, whether it be alleged pinball sexism, or alleged lack of respect for traditional bluegrass lyrics.
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Updated names in bluegrass lyrics, or I mean… it’s 2018
There are some who believe, mistakenly I think, that bluegrass music hasn’t received its due recognition in the mass marketplace because the song lyrics no longer speak to the condition of the average listener in 2018. Others believe its mass
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Hey… can you help an artist out?
Several weeks ago I wrote a column about bluegrass financing (save all your oxymoron jokes for another time!), and we got into an interesting discussion in the comments section below, which I’d like to pick up on, expand upon, then
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Studio tips and pop psychology – part two
Last week we were discussing the psychology of the studio experience, and we’ve come now to the critically important matter of the engineer. When we last left the studio, our engineer was mixing an album with 6 different self-producers surrounding him,
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Another look at life in the studio
The Night Drivers and I are in the studio this week in North Carolina, recording new material for Mountain Home, so I figured this would be a good time to offer up an “encore presentation” (rerun) of a column I
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Tax Tips For the Bluegrass Musician – redux
As I mentioned last week, after my 300th column, Bluegrass Today has generously given me a few weeks off. I thought this might be the ideal time to dig up my tax tips column from a few years ago. Tax laws
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Sweet or savory? Tune in next week to find out!
This is, according to my count (I at least waited until I came up with the same number twice), my 300th column for Bluegrass Today. On the occasion of my 200th column, I gave a quiz, and I didn’t think
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Financing in bluegrass: beg, borrow, or steal?
If you’ve followed recent news (and I don’t recommend that you do), you may have seen that Facebook has taken a beating this week due to controversy related to, well, controversial things that I don’t fully understand but they sound