Tag: Chris Jones

From The Side of the Road… festival workshop questions to set the mood

The summer festival and music camp season is fast-approaching, and with that comes the workshop season. I thought of it because…

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From The Side of the Road… pandemic fun, in retrospect

Now that we’ve passed the five-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was interesting to look back on…

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From The Side of the Road… music camp shenanigans

Music camp season is fast approaching. Do you have your camp outfits picked out (usually T-shirts from other camps) and washed…

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From The Side of the Road… Mr Bluegrass Manners takes on 2025

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been absent for quite a while, working on his forthcoming book, Advance and Retreat – A Guide…

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From The Side of the Road… mixed messages in bluegrass advertising

Greetings from the big city of New York. I’m here paying a visit to SiriusXM studios. Shortly I’m heading to Chicago…

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From The Side of the Road… Mr Bluegrass Manners does COVID

Next week there’s going to be a long overdue new Mr. Bluegrass Manners column, so to get you in the mood,…

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From The Side of the Road… should there be bluegrass sequels?

Sequels are so often disappointing, Santa Clause 2 being a notable exception. Speaking of holiday classics, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol…

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From The Side of the Road… drop a name, enhance your status

I addressed the issue of name-dropping early on in the life of this column. Béla said he was pretty happy with…

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From The Side of the Road… Flatt & Scruggs Haiku!

We haven’t discussed haiku much lately, and I’m not sure with all that’s going on in the country and the world,…

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From The Side of the Road… bluegrass band phrase book

We sometimes exaggerate in bluegrass music as a way of compensating for the fact that we aren’t generally playing music for…

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