by Bert Daniel | Apr 8, 2022 | Welcome Column
Would Napoleon Bonaparte have liked Bluegrass and Old Time music? This is an interesting question. I think he probably would have. Sure, the music would have been more than a hundred years more “advanced” than what he was used to but likely the French emperor would...
by Bert Daniel | Apr 4, 2022 | Welcome Column
Suppose you decide to play a recording from Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, or the Stanley Brothers or Flatt and Scruggs. You’re about to listen to some Bluegrass music, right? After all, these are the bands that form the pillars of the genre we now call Bluegrass...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 30, 2022 | Welcome Column
Springtime is near my darlin’ … and I’m counting now the days. (Bill Monroe) Living in California sure makes it easier when it gets down to saying goodbye to Old Man Winter. Compared to my years living back east, out here the winter hardly ever even comes: It’s not...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 28, 2022 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “My ideal summer day was reading on the porch” … Harold Varmus A porch is a wonderful place to be. If you want to be a front porch picker, you have to have a front porch. It’s just as much fun to pick on the back porch and if you have a wrap...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 26, 2022 | Welcome Column
You’d be pretty hard pressed to come up with the name of a mountain range which is more storied and sung about than the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially if you’re a Bluegrass fan. The Blue Ridge will forever be my favorite mountains. They were the first mountains I...
