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...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 18, 2022 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass and baseball are connected at the hip. And I would have serious withdrawal symptoms if I were deprived of either. Covid tested me with both addictions over the past two years and I was worried that labor negotiations might deprive me of one of my passions...
by Bruce Campbell | Mar 16, 2022 | Welcome Column
When I read the “Hooked on Bluegrass” stories, I am struck by how many different ways we come to know and love bluegrass music. For some, it’s very direct – they grew up in a bluegrass-soaked environment, and it was part of their lives for as long as they...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 14, 2022 | Welcome Column
If you’re gonna be a Bluegrass fan, you gotta have a nickname. It’s as simple as that. Fortunately for me, I was reared in the Southeast, (where Bluegrass was born). Colorful nicknames are the rule there. My mom called me “Bert Boy” almost before I was born. I kid you...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 12, 2022 | Welcome Column
iI read a book a couple of years ago called Nomadland by Jessica Bruder. It’s a good book and I think many of my fellow bluegrass fans would enjoy it too because so many of us are nomads at heart. We pack up our stuff and head to every bluegrass festival we can find...
