Chris Jones

I've become very disillusioned with the zodiac, I have to admit. First there were the overly general daily horoscopes: "Make sound financial decisions today. Expect news from a friend, family member, or other human being you may or may not

Greetings from Germany, where I'm on tour playing some duo shows with Paolo Ercoli. On Friday of this week (3:00 p.m. Eastern), the classic bluegrass show I do for SiriusXM, Truegrass, will be broadcast from the tour and will feature classic bluegrass

Greetings from Italy, where I'm starting a tour this week with Italian dobro player Paolo Ercoli. Since I am writing in from Europe, I thought I'd address one potential issue on European tours, and that is the language barrier (revised

Welcome to the Election Week edition of this column. There will be no endorsing of candidates for office (that's best left to daily newspapers with editorial boards like the Washington Post), political jokes, or misinformation about polling places or times,

I've discussed in past columns the fact that, while bluegrass bands still get booked at weddings, there are at most three appropriate bluegrass songs to play at a wedding. Even some of the instrumentals are questionable, at least if you

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

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

 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

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

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