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...
by robin | Mar 5, 2025 | General News
A friend invited me to a square dance in L.A. last month and then this happened . . . Photos by Robin Frenette Read full article in Bluegrass Today by Dave Berry...
by Bert Daniel | Feb 26, 2025 | Welcome Column
Unless you count the untold dozens of dollars most bands pay themselves, the biggest expense by far is travel. It is daunting enough to move a solo or duo act from home 20 miles to Point A and then 20 more miles to Point B while ensuring that everyone arrives on time...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 9, 2025 | Welcome Column
The pedal steel guitar: what it is, how it works Sean J. Barry-2025 The pedal steel guitar is closely identified with country music as a main contributor to the “traditional” Nashville sound, but it has also been used frequently in jazz, swing, and rock music. The...
by Bert Daniel | Mar 28, 2025 | Welcome to California!
I’m cooking string beans tonight. I like to add a little bit of bacon bits, chopped onion and chicken broth for extra flavor but green beans are pretty easy to whip up. The green beans of today are much easier than those of my youth because they are so much less...
by robin | Apr 30, 2025 | Bluegrass History
My 50th anniversary celebration will be a couple weeks late. Vancouver Co-op Radio began broadcasting on April 15, 1975, and I was on the air for the station that day. I was the producer and host for numerous shows on Co-op Radio during the next 20 years. And I...
by Bert Daniel | May 3, 2025 | Welcome Column
Brazilian rosewood seemed finally to be unavailable outside of Brazil, but a mix of legal exceptions such as lumber supposedly accumulated before the 1992 CITES Appendix I listing (“pre-CITES” wood) and wood salvaged from non-living sources (“stump wood,” purportedly...
