by Bert Daniel | Aug 6, 2021 | Welcome Column
The harbinger of a healing America is spreading like a shot filled tequila bluegrass jam as actual real flesh and blood blue grass bands are being booked to perform on real non zoom incorporated stages. I just saw the good news that my friend Jason Winfrey and Red Dog...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 19, 2021 | Welcome Column
A few weeks ago my wife and I were visited by a couple who had been good friends of ours since student days. We hadn’t seen them for some years, and it came up in conversation that the husband had presented his wife with a ukulele last Christmas. After a bit of...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 18, 2021 | Welcome Column
Every musician who plays an acoustic instrument knows that some instruments sound a lot better than others. A really good musician can make any decently made instrument sing but the voice of an acoustic instrument crafted by an expert using the best tone woods...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Many things attract our attention simply because they are so unusual. You have in your mind a preexisting concept of what is normal and then you see something that is so outside the box you don’t know how it could have possibly come to be. In the bluegrass world I...
by Bert Daniel | Jun 12, 2021 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “I like to watch TV” (Peter Sellers, from the movie Being There) Our world has changed dramatically since the days when Bluegrass music first came onto the scene. Given all that has happened since Bill Monroe took his new band, featuring banjoist...
