Opinion / Humor

After writing 500 or so of these, I find that I occasionally tire of all the truth-telling (with the occasional lie thrown in just for fun, or do I have that ratio reversed?). If you wouldn't mind indulging me, then,

There's a tradition here of publishing at least one bluegrass haiku column per year. I've usually taken presidential election years off because even short-form poetry about leaves and clouds is controversial and divisive in these years ("Is that a reference

WIth Gen Z soaking up a lot of press right now (while not knowing what the antiquated term "press" even refers to), it's easy to forget that millennial jokes still resonate with people, which I think is even a pretty

For your consideration: I might as well warn you that I'll be opening all correspondence this way for the next two weeks. It has a little more zip to it than, "To Whom it May Concern," anyway. I'm also going to

I'm traveling today, so this is actually a rerun from years gone by. Since the subject is taxes for musicians, though, you'll find it has a certain timeless quality, because nothing else gives quite the sense of deja vu as

We sometimes don't like to think of it this way, but we live in a fiercely competitive and ever-changing business, with all of us searching for ways to offer something unique, and to find something that will give our musical

I never thought I'd find myself discussing video games in this space; I'm really more of a pinball guy, which I like to think of as an acoustic video game that you can set a drink on. Still, there's been

We in the bluegrass music community have our own vocabulary, like referring to the banjo as "the five," an instrumental solo as a "break," a professional bluegrass income as "a living," etc. I think we could all still stand to

Do you have a big wedding anniversary coming up? When we celebrated our 30th, I decided to consult the list of year or milestone-appropriate gifts as a guide for my gift (the 60th anniversary gift, by the way, is an

I don't know if you’re familiar with the song made popular by Dobie Gray in 1973 called Drift Away, but it's a song that's had enduring appeal. I personally have always been a huge fan of the Dobie Gray version.