by robin | Jan 26, 2025 | Brenda and the Reviews
High Lonesome HighLonesomeNewgrass.com Song List: We Hit the Road, Jubilee, Old Familiar Song, As The Crow Flies, Worn Out Shoes, You’ll Never Know, Savage Sundown, Trust My Hands, Burning Bridges, Nashville Blues, All That’s Left. High Lonesome is one of the newest...
by Bert Daniel | Jan 10, 2025 | Welcome Column
Editor’s Note: I’d like to welcome a new columnist, Sean Barry to our writing staff. I’m looking forward to hearing more from him. Take it away, Sean. In October 1978 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys appeared at the Coffee House at UC Davis, a show I was unable to...
by Bert Daniel | Jan 4, 2025 | Welcome Column
If you’re in a casual jam at any bluegrass jamming venue you are certain to come across a situation where a great song is in progress and the lead singer has a brain freeze. The solo breaks might be very good but a song tends to falter unless there are lyrics. Most...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 25, 2024 | Welcome Column
I have been watching a new direct to consumer drug ad recently that reminds me of a spoof article I wrote a few years ago. The new ad is for a drug called upadacitinib which goes by the brand name Renvoq. The amazing thing is that the commercial actually includes a...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 21, 2024 | Welcome Column
My mouth is watering already for the food I will relish at the Great 48 event this January in Bakersfield. Bakersfield is one of the few places in California where you can get good grits because the town is populated with so many descendants of Okie migrants who went...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 9, 2024 | Welcome Column
Acoustic music has a special resonance in certain places. I remember one time hiking through the Armstrong Redwoods near my home in Sonoma County and hearing a flutist playing in the hollowed-out stump of an old redwood tree. You could tell he enjoyed the special...
by robin | Oct 30, 2024 | Brenda and the Reviews
NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival The annual festival was held in August at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos near Hollister. Since its beginning in 1994 (thirty years!) its been a favorite festival featuring California bands and lots of...
by Bert Daniel | Oct 3, 2024 | Welcome Column
Hurricane Helene dealt a devastating blow to the heartland of bluegrass and Appalachian mountain music last week. I grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and I remember well the devastation Hurricane Camille caused in 1969 when it pounded the mountains...
by Bert Daniel | Oct 2, 2024 | Welcome Column
Technology has made so many things obsolete during the years of our industrial revolution. The traditional letter may be one of the next things on the list of obsolescence: If only I could hear just one little word From Mother and Daddy, my heart would fill with cheer...
by Bert Daniel | Sep 28, 2024 | Welcome Column
Every October first, people celebrate World Bluegrass Day. It happens this Tuesday but unfortunately you don’t get the day off. Often the date coincides with the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival here in northern California so you might want to take the day off...
