by Bert Daniel | Dec 7, 2025 | Welcome Column
“Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you” (Satchel Paige) Lot’s wife looked back and she was turned into a pillar of salt. Orpheus looked back and he lost his love Eurydice forever. Maybe looking back is a bad thing. How does that possible wisdom apply to...
by robin | Dec 1, 2025 | Bluegrass Musicians
In this series, Joselyn explores what it takes to make the leap from campground picker to professional performer. In this eighth installment, we hear from Keith Little, whose many accolades as a multi-instrumental performing and recording artist, composer and...
by Bert Daniel | Dec 1, 2025 | Welcome Column
Important takeaways regarding CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species): 1) CITES is neither an investigative nor an enforcement agency—contrary to frequent but completely unfoundedbelief, there are no “CITES agents” inspecting listed species...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 9, 2024 | Welcome Column
Acoustic music has a special resonance in certain places. I remember one time hiking through the Armstrong Redwoods near my home in Sonoma County and hearing a flutist playing in the hollowed-out stump of an old redwood tree. You could tell he enjoyed the special...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 21, 2024 | Welcome Column
My mouth is watering already for the food I will relish at the Great 48 event this January in Bakersfield. Bakersfield is one of the few places in California where you can get good grits because the town is populated with so many descendants of Okie migrants who went...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 25, 2024 | Welcome Column
I have been watching a new direct to consumer drug ad recently that reminds me of a spoof article I wrote a few years ago. The new ad is for a drug called upadacitinib which goes by the brand name Renvoq. The amazing thing is that the commercial actually includes a...
by Bert Daniel | Jan 4, 2025 | Welcome Column
If you’re in a casual jam at any bluegrass jamming venue you are certain to come across a situation where a great song is in progress and the lead singer has a brain freeze. The solo breaks might be very good but a song tends to falter unless there are lyrics. Most...
by Bert Daniel | Jan 10, 2025 | Welcome Column
Editor’s Note: I’d like to welcome a new columnist, Sean Barry to our writing staff. I’m looking forward to hearing more from him. Take it away, Sean. In October 1978 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys appeared at the Coffee House at UC Davis, a show I was unable to...
by Bert Daniel | Feb 13, 2025 | Welcome Column
Part one: California Zephyr: Getting in When I graduated from UC Davis in the mid-1970s with a degree in Zoology, I decided, like so many others in my place might have, to join an established band, and go on to make dozens, if not scores, of dollars and a few platinum...
by robin | Jan 26, 2025 | Reviews
High Lonesome HighLonesomeNewgrass.com Song List: We Hit the Road, Jubilee, Old Familiar Song, As The Crow Flies, Worn Out Shoes, You’ll Never Know, Savage Sundown, Trust My Hands, Burning Bridges, Nashville Blues, All That’s Left. High Lonesome is one of the newest...
