Opinion / Humor

Hi Sonny: I think the year was 1995 or '96 and you were playing a carnival in Clear Springs, MD, and the rain interrupted your show for some time and you, Bobby, and the band went to your bus parked just

If you've attended the IBMA World of Bluegrass and registered for the conference, the organization hereby thanks you for not being a freeloader. No, what I really started to say was that if you've registered for the conference and thereby

Howdy folks! Time for this week’s Question and Answer show! Hyar we go….. S =========== Sonny, A hundred years from now, a young person will be drawn to the sound of bluegrass music, and they will hear that inner voice that tells them "you

Chris is stuck working a double shift this morning at SiriusXM, so we are running this encore presentation of one of his best columns. There's a whole industry built around baby names. There are numerous books out listing baby names, their

This article is contribution from Theresa Seiders in celebration of International Women's Day on Match 8. It is part of the Monroe Mandolin Camp's commitment to the preservation and promotion of traditional bluegrass music, through building connection, understanding, and community among

Good morning Chief, I hope you had a good week and either already have your COVID shot, or are on the list. I got mine late last week. Either way, fear not, we're all masked up out here in the

If you've been reading these columns for any length of time, you know that I have periodically lamented the fact that a significant chunk of bluegrass music listeners aren't paying attention to lyrics, and may only be vaguely aware that

Well Chief, I hope you stayed inside this week and enjoyed perusing Marty's Valentine's gift. From the sounds of things on the news, it's a good thing we didn't venture far from the driveway last week — at least to

Should we consider adopting the metric system for bluegrass songs to broaden the music's appeal? Bluegrass musician Ira Gitlin brought this issue up to me recently, and I think it deserves some thought. This is a question almost no one

Good morning Chief! I'm reminded of The New South's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's 10 Degrees And Getting Colder this morning. In fact it was 9º overnight and with this layer of ice, Larry says we're not taking the Bluebird anywhere