Brief Impressions from FDF2012

Another Father’s Day Festival in the books. By nearly all accounts, it was a good one – although the comments directly following the festival always seem overwhelmingly positive. So, how was this one any better than others? From a CBA standpoint, that really can’t be...

BRIGHT STAR!

It ain’t Bluegrass , but it is darned good entertainment!  “Bight Star” is a near perfect play with straight-forward words and music, but at it’s core it is a story as old as humanity.  It is the story told by the Greeks and perfected for the English...

Bringin’ in the Bluegrass Mail

In the world gone web in which we live, it’s a novelty to receive, via the United States Postal Service, a personal letter. Ninety per cent of the mail I receive is bills and the other ten per cent is junk. So it was a surprise to find a small envelope of personalized...

Bristol

It is that time of year again when I get to go to Bristol to teach and coach at a one week jam camp in conjunction with the Rhythm & Roots Festival (http://lineup.bristolrhythm.com/# ). Bristol considers itself “The Birthplace of Country Music” and the museum...

Broken – HAVE YOU FALLEN SINCE YOUR LAST VISIT?

Not Waving But DrowningNobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They...