by Bert Daniel | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
It was night time at Grass Valley. Everyone with any sense had gone to bed long ago but even now, at three in the morning, you could hear a few murmurings. The stage area was especially quiet. Only a few hours before, this very stage had pulsed with energy and it...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
If you want to be a picker you gotta have a pick. Well at least for the most part. I’m just like the rest of you, I love to pick with fiddlers, who use that crazy thing called a bow. And I appreciate the bass players who make all that foundation sound with their...
by Bruce Campbell | Jul 13, 2022 | Welcome Column
I have long marveled at the way live music evokes ecstatic reactions from members of the audience. I have seen this from being in the audience and being onstage, and it’s wonderful to behold. Clearly it’s a win-win situation. When we’re young – very young...
by Patrick Campbell | Jul 12, 2022 | Reviews
Breaking Grass: Somewhere Beyond www.mountainfever.com Song List: 100 Degrees in the Shade, Money Can’t Buy You, Free, The Gift, Let the Good Times Go, It Ain’t Enough, Outrun the Wolf, The Boy on the Black Horse, Pauline, Down in the Darkness. Breaking Grass has been...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 11, 2022 | Welcome Column
Jesse McReynolds turned 93 years old a couple of days ago. Happy belated birthday, Jesse! Among the luminary founders of the genre we call bluegrass music today, Jesse certainly looms very large. Bill Monroe first took country music in that specific direction and his...
by Patrick Campbell | Jul 11, 2022 | Reviews
Scott Vestal: Bluegrass 2022 (Instrumentals) www.pinecastlemusic.com Song List: John Hardy, EMD, Gold Rush, Reuben, Blackberry Blossom, Welcome to New York, Tipper, Steam Powered Aero Plane, Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Train 45. Scott Vestal has received the Banjo...
by Patrick Campbell | Jul 8, 2022 | Announcements
Here is an excerpt: Do other women tell you that you have been a role model for them? Yes! And I love that. I think about the women who were role models for me: Of course, my mom is the first one, as moms are for almost every woman. But I am just tickled to be a role...
by Bruce Campbell | Jul 6, 2022 | Welcome Column
Most times, you don’t want to be confronted with a task list. Visions of sorting laundry, cleaning the gutters, pulling weeds and getting the oil changed – ugh. But some tasks, if they are something you know you’re good at, and the results make you happy, are...
by Patrick Campbell | Jul 4, 2022 | Announcements
Molly O’Day’s music — with the Cumberland Mountain Folks in the ’40s & ’50s, as well as contemporary interpretations — its celebrated on the July 9th Bluegrass Signal radio show. July 3, 2022 Greetings – Thanks for...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 4, 2022 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music has always been more than just blue. It’s solidly red and white too just like our flag and especially so on this 246th birthday of our great country. Bluegrass fans have to be some of the most patriotic music lovers out there and nothing screams...
