Author: Chris Jones

Happy post-Christmas/pre-NewYear. I'm spending the holidays in a somewhat remote area of western Canada, where it was necessary to write and send this column in late November, to allow time for it to be delivered by dog sled (with some

Last year around this time, we ran a rerun of my reimagined Stave Two of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge is actually a cheap, arrogant, and thoroughly disliked bluegrass band leader. I thought it would be appropriate,

As promised last week, here are this year's Hallmark bluegrass Christmas movie plot proposals. As in past years, these are cast using a combination of well-established Hallmark Christmas movie actors and bluegrass artists:       Christmas at Wildwood Flower Farms Financially-driven

We’ve all been waiting months for the Hallmark Christmas movies to start (okay, maybe eliminate "all" from that opening phrase), which just shows we haven't been paying attention because they've been going since October 17. There have been reruns running

There are lots of things we need to be careful of in the holiday season, like making sure we remember where we parked in a crowded shopping mall lot, or making sure not to leave gluten-free cookies out for Santa

There's been an exciting new development at Bluegrass Today. I think it's even bigger than the recent breaking of the personnel change story that rocked the industry: "Brian Hampton to Kryspy Rydge." It may even be bigger than the installation

Whenever you search something or ask a question of the Almighty Internet gods (whose names are Pete and Roscoe) on your computer, the usual procedure is to type a question in the search bar at the top of your internet

I'm sitting in a hospital bed in Germany after an unfortunate fall on some stairs that left me with broken ribs and a ruptured spleen, but quite a bit of time. This was during a tour, and naturally I had

I was recently sent a press release about a song that claimed it's the "Hotel California of bluegrass" (because you can never leave?), and it got me thinking about these kinds of comparisons: "The American Pie of Bluegrass," "The Mick

I want to describe a scene at a typical bluegrass concert or festival that will probably be familiar to both artist and fan, and it may cause each to shudder just a little: A fan walks up to a performer while