Opinion / Humor

I think we may have a small problem in our world with bluegrass fundamentalism. I’m not referring to the desire on the part of some to define bluegrass music in some sort of legalistic terms with a set of rules

Greetings from New Haven, Connecticut, or at least that’s what the sign said on the exit. I’m here for the Podunk Bluegrass Festival just up the road in Hebron, having just wrapped up a wonderful week at the Augusta Heritage

There are at least a few different categories of bluegrass band leader personalities. All have their good and bad points. There can be a wide range too, from the Benito Mussolini school of management, to the style of the touchy-feely

I have tended to shy away from themes in my radio work. With the classic bluegrass show I do for SiriusXM called Truegrass, I’ll occasionally do tributes to some of the bluegrass greats in honor of a special occasion like

As regular readers of Bluegrass Today may remember, I am not always full of praise when I write about IBMA, some of its actions and some of its leaders. But I don’t think resigning from the organization or deciding not to

What with the heart of the road season upon us and some extra radio work this week, I’m taking this Wednesday (and 15 minutes on Thursday) off. Here then is a column I wrote a couple of years ago about

It doesn't pay anything, but you'll get good exposure. This moose got some free exposure, and look at him. I'm not sure who decided that exposure could be good, but venues and promoters have been using this idea as a selling

If you’re a songwriter, you may still have the original pad of paper you wrote the rough drafts of your songs on. Remember that even some of the songs we consider masterpieces probably had some temporary filler lines or lines

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

The four stomachs of a cow are the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum, and the abomasum. What does this have to do with bluegrass, you may be asking, aside from a cow ingesting actual blue grass and sending it straight into