Blue Ridge

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...

Blue Summit Expand Horizons on New Project

 Some readers may know that a large amount of my earliest musical memories were with AJ Lee. Whether it was with Kids on Bluegrass, or our travels with the Schwartz brothers in OMGG, I have heard and seen a large portion of AJ’s artistic growth. The same can be...

Bluegrass

I’ve been thinking of late, is my writing too much about family or possibly even too personal.  And who really gives a tweedle-dee, Robin.  I mean, I am writing a welcome column for a bluegrass paper, not for Chicken Soup for the Soul.   It’s nothing...

Bluegrass – What is it Good For?

(Apologies to Edwin Starr for paraphrasing his work) Some of the benefits of bluegrass are obvious – the very existence of the CBA is a testament to that. But there are other, long-reaching, but less obvious benefits. Excess money spent on instruments and...

Bluegrass – What is it Good For?

(Apologies to Edwin Starr for paraphrasing his work) Some of the benefits of bluegrass are obvious – the very existence of the CBA is a testament to that. But there are other, long-reaching, but less obvious benefits. Excess money spent on instruments and...